Microsoft is bringing Windows 11’s excellent ‘Dev Home’ app to Windows 10 users

Another Windows 11 feature is being made available on Windows 10 this week.

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What you need to know

Last year, Microsoftlaunched a new app for developers on Windows 11 dubbed “Dev Home"that was built from the ground to aid in the setup and usage of a dev box for people building apps on Windows. Dev Home lets you download programming apps, tools, frameworks, and sync with repositories from the likes of Github.

When the app was announced, it was announced exclusively forWindows 11, but Microsoft has had a change of heart over the last few months, and recently announced a recommitment to delivering features forWindows 10users too. As a result, the Dev Home app is now available for Windows 10!

Here are the highlights for what Dev Home does:

Support for Windows 10 begins with version 0.9 of the Dev Home app, which can bedownloaded from Github.The app is still in preview, so there will likely be some bugs.

Dev Home joinsMicrosoft Copilotand a newricher weather interfacefor the lock screen, both originally Windows 11 features that are being backported to Windows 10 this year. Windows 10 is still in use on over 1 billion PCs across the globe, making it the dominant version of Windows and the main reason why the company beginning to backport features to the older OS.

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