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

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

Apr 10, 2025

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18 min read

Microsoft's feedback maze

Despite countless portals for customers to submit feedback and vote on ideas, MS is unable to follow their own process and provide any responses to frustrated users.

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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Jul 11, 2025

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3 min read

Why not Markdown?

The answer to efficient human-AI collaboration may not be yet another proprietary Copilot integration. It could be a simple markup language that doesn't lock us into any specific workflows.

Jukka Niiranen

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Jul 4, 2025

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3 min read

Choose your future. Choose Copilot.

Why people feel they want to make different choices than what Microsoft and the corporate IT department would want them to choose.

Jukka Niiranen

Jun 26, 2025

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17 min read

Why did Microsoft give up on Project?

Microsoft didn't build Planner for Project users as an upgrade. They built it for the AI-powered world they want to sell next.

Jukka Niiranen

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