Perspectives on Power Platform

Brutally honest and cheerfully sarcastic insights on Microsoft’s low-code and AI technology, business apps, and the business of software - written by Jukka Niiranen.

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Oct 2, 2025

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20 min read

Microsoft 365 Copilot's commercial failure

The number of paying subscribers for Copilot has leaked, and it is a disaster. Now even reshaping Satya Nadella's CEO role into tech leadership rather than delivering commercial results.

Jukka Niiranen

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Aug 22, 2025

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11 min read

What next for Power Automate?

Cloud flows are starting to feel like a legacy feature that is ripe for being "reimagined" into a new automation offering for the era of agentic AI. (Whatever that means.)

Jukka Niiranen

Feb 25, 2025

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15 min read

Product ideas in the void

Microsoft is eager to hear user feedback. Do they want to execute on user ideas, though? It doesn't always seem that way.

Jukka Niiranen

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Jan 23, 2026

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17 min read

The new bottleneck is apps

Instead of starting from a M365-like suite and adding AI, Anthropic pursued a "no apps" model and caught everyone's attention with Claude Code. Maybe all you need is text files?

Jukka Niiranen

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Jan 16, 2026

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16 min read

Post-Ignite agentic hangover

After the big November 2025 launch at Ignite, Agent 365 has gone back undercover. Do the partner solutions exist in the real world at all? Is this a product or a "product"?

Jukka Niiranen

Jan 9, 2026

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24 min read

The year of Microslop, 2026

Microsoft has a set of challenges ahead in 2026 to undo the damage to its brand and reputation that has accumulated in the past couple of years.

Jukka Niiranen

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Dec 29, 2025

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14 min read

Impostor without a syndrome

Most of us have occasional concerns about being good enough at what we do. Here's how I've found joy in being a straight-up impostor in software built with custom code.

Jukka Niiranen

Dec 19, 2025

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24 min read

Can Plan Designer create real Power Platform solutions?

What you can expect to get from the AI tools inside Power Apps maker portal when asking them to support your business process with apps, automations and agents.

Jukka Niiranen

Dec 11, 2025

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10 min read

XrmToolBox Plugin Catalog is here!

When's the last time you explored the new and updated community tools for Power Platform and Dynamics 365? Here's a website to make that easier.

Jukka Niiranen

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Dec 5, 2025

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13 min read

A year of Perspectives

Writing a weekly newsletter for one year has been a journey indeed. One thousand hours later, what have I learned about the tech world that I cover — and myself?

Jukka Niiranen

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Nov 28, 2025

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16 min read

Headless business apps and generative UI

Text-based chat won't be the only interface for AI. Combining the "GenUI" ability of LLMs with structured data from existing apps via MCP could become a winning formula.

Jukka Niiranen

Nov 21, 2025

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15 min read

Agent 365 makes sense & is not enough

Microsoft is doubling down on its key strengths in the enterprise with the "control plane for AI agents". This is a better commercial story than M365 Copilot, yet it alone won't make agentic AI secure.

Jukka Niiranen

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