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
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?
Feb 12, 2025
23 min read
What does it mean to be a responsible AI citizen in a world that's just getting crazier every day?
Apr 10, 2025
18 min read
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.
Aug 22, 2025
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.)
Aug 15, 2025
4 min read
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.
Aug 7, 2025
20 min read
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.
Aug 1, 2025
9 min read
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.
Jul 24, 2025
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.
Jul 17, 2025
8 min read
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.