Providing a powerful developer workstation in the cloud: Microsoft Dev Box

In today’s era of hybrid work, it has become extremely important to have workstations in the cloud to ensure uninterrupted workflow. While Microsoft has been trying to solve this problem with Windows 365, it today announced a dedicated solution called Microsoft Dev Box.

In short, Dev Box will provide a powerful developer workstation hosted on the cloud. It will also integrate with the Azure deployment environment so you can use your existing project templates to get up and running immediately. The motivation behind the solution is to reduce IT administrators’ headaches in resource onboarding and hardware procurement, compliance and security. Dev Box is essentially a combined endpoint manager for Windows 365, Intune, and Microsoft.

#A key idea behind the Dev Box is also versatility. Developers can quickly spin up Dev Box, run proof-of-concepts, delete them, provision them with the required tools, and more. Since this is a cloud solution, you can access your Dev Box from any hardware that can access a web browser, even Android and iOS. Security and cost management controls and dashboards will also be available on the Dev Box portal.

That said, Dev Box is currently only available in private preview, and you can sign up for the waitlist here .

That’s not all Microsoft has to offer, it’s already ready for developers. GitHub OpenID Connect (OIDC) and Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) workload identity federation is now generally available (GA). It adds another layer of security to Azure secrets management in the GitHub Actions secrets store.

.NET Multiplatform Application UI (.NET MAUI) has also reached GA. It allows developers to build cross-platform native apps using C# and XAML in a unified code base for multiple environments including Windows, Android, iOS, and macOS. Even web developers can build hybrid web applications with C# and Blazor instead of relying on JavaScript.

Finally, helping developers find ways to write code in more efficient ways remains an important area for Microsoft. The company plans to share insights about the GitHub Copilot technical preview and its general availability soon. It has also started two other initiatives: Copilot Explain uses natural language to describe code for novice developers, and OpenAI Codex is another model that converts natural language into a dozen programming languages.

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