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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Oct 15, 2025

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26 min read

Can Flow Builder replace Power Automate?

Microsoft 365 Copilot paying customers can now create actual cloud flows by prompting an agent. With plenty of caveats and issues left to resolve, based on the Frontier preview.

Jukka Niiranen

Oct 10, 2025

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18 min read

Selling M365 Copilot: the next episode

The controversy of addressing the poor adoption rate of paid Copilot & the many discussions sparked from it. What moves might Microsoft make next to find growth in AI license sales?

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

Sep 26, 2025

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17 min read

Building products on the Power Platform

Can you build a SaaS product from the low-code components offered by Microsoft's platform and then charge money for it? Yes, if you overcome a few hurdles first.

Jukka Niiranen

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Sep 16, 2025

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14 min read

Lite side / dark side of Copilot Studio

Microsoft's decision to bundle two different AI agent technologies under the Copilot Studio brand makes it even harder for admins and developers to figure out the technical details of Copilot agents.

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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