For years, Power Platform customers and partners relied on a free Kit from Microsoft to govern their apps and automations. What happens now when its maintenance ends?
Deep Dive 01: Licensing, capacity and cost management
Launching a new Plus content format to go beyond individual newsletter issues and cover the full depth of complex topics. Starting with Power Platform licensing, of course!
Copilot can generate some slides for you. Yet it cannot both A) make a pretty deck and B) use the PowerPoint application features us humans need for managing the slides.
Who says software licensing needs to be all serious business? What MS has been doing in 2026 so far certainly doesn't seem to be the work of serious people...
What if we didn't have to open Copilot and just hope we prompted it the right way? The rise of OpenClaw has shifted expectations on what AI agents can do when given the (scary) permissions.
Microsoft seems incapable of improving Power Automate maker productivity. As cloud flows are now divorced from Azure Logic Apps, all hope lies in community tools to provide a workable UI as well as AI development support.
Microsoft AI numbers: the good, the bad & the ugly
What Microsoft says & doesn't say about its Copilot and Foundry business metrics, combined with independent research results and AI competitor numbers.
The convenience of cloud services has isolated us from servers and software. One empowering way to leverage AI is learning how to get back in touch with the real computers.
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?
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"?
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.
