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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May 22, 2025

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11 min read

The Burning Platform strategy of Microsoft

Satya Nadella's "burn the ships" directive to his inner circle signals total commitment to AI - but at what cost to current customers relying on MS business apps?

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 12, 2025

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23 min read

Trusting big tech in the age of AI

What does it mean to be a responsible AI citizen in a world that's just getting crazier every day?

Jukka Niiranen

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Sep 11, 2025

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7 min read

The secret life of Copilot scheduled prompts

Formerly known as Copilot Actions. Formerly orchestrated by Power Automate. This current feature that is NOT called "an agent" has some interesting characteristics worth exploring.

Jukka Niiranen

Sep 3, 2025

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19 min read

Who monitors the Power Platform Monitor?

Making sure your apps and flows are running isn't that easy. Monitor promises effortless visibility, but how well does it deliver that today?

Jukka Niiranen

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Aug 27, 2025

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7 min read

What bubble? Oh, THAT bubble...

The memes tried to warn us about the GenAI bubble. In August 2025, the world still doesn't have AGI and people are getting increasingly anxious about the hyped expectations vs. market reality.

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

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Aug 15, 2025

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4 min read

Who is Microsoft Agent 365?

Where is he/she coming from and what is the secret mission of Agent 365? I bet this mission is all about finding a new commercial model beyond per-seat SaaS licensing.

Jukka Niiranen

Aug 7, 2025

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20 min read

Numbers designed to please

When a company like Microsoft needs big numbers to convince their audience, here's the playbook for generating the millions and billions seen in their marketing comms.

Jukka Niiranen

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Aug 1, 2025

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9 min read

Assistants without hands

When everyone talks about agentic AI, it's all too easy to forget how AI assistants like Copilot today can't be trusted to do things for us - if it involves anything more than talk.

Jukka Niiranen

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Jul 24, 2025

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4 min read

Reboot your chatbot

AI is not just about cold, hard data. LLMs are narrative building machines that may take you for a wild ride unless you remember to reset the context of the chat.

Jukka Niiranen

Jul 17, 2025

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8 min read

Release plans are worthless

Another wave of Power Platform and Dynamics 365 release plans washes onto the shore, soon to be swept away by the winds of endless change to the release plan items.

Jukka Niiranen

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