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Microsoft Retires Azure Deployment Environments with No Replacement Product

Steef-Jan Wiggers — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 08:13:00 GMT

Azure Deployment Environments retires on February 22, 2027 and Microsoft names no successor, telling teams to use Bicep or ARM templates directly. Microsoft Dev Box follows on September 18, 2028, pointed at Windows 365, which Microsoft says is not a one-to-one replacement. Remaining Dev Box workloads should expect deletion.

By Steef-Jan Wiggers

Developers Reporting Double-Digit Weekly Time Savings from AI Fell from 68% to 26%

Steef-Jan Wiggers — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 04:45:00 GMT

Atlassian’s State of Developer Experience 2026 finds the share of developers saving ten or more hours a week with AI dropped from 68% to 26% year over year, while only 28% report noticeably less friction than before AI. Engineering leaders report spending more time managing and correcting AI output than developers do.

By Steef-Jan Wiggers