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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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

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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 25, 2025

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15 min read

Product ideas in the void

Microsoft is eager to hear user feedback. Do they want to execute on user ideas, though? It doesn't always seem that way.

Jukka Niiranen

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Apr 16, 2026

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10 min read

I see dead features, part 2: Dataflows

Power Platform Dataflows were never deprecated, but they were never really finished either. As Fabric moves on, they are getting left behind.

Jukka Niiranen

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Apr 9, 2026

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24 min read

AI still can't figure out PowerPoint

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.

Jukka Niiranen

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Apr 2, 2026

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11 min read

The Claw of unintended consequences

BYOC - "Bring Your OpenClaw". That is the approach Microsoft is now applauding with one hand, while trying to embrace security with the other.

Jukka Niiranen

Mar 27, 2026

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10 min read

Release plans, the way they should be

Introducing Release Plans Browser - a modern web experience to search and view Dynamics 365 and Power Platform release plan items.

Jukka Niiranen

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Mar 20, 2026

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15 min read

The licensing spaghetti on Microsoft's wall

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...

Jukka Niiranen

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Mar 12, 2026

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16 min read

Power Platform: disconnecting workflows

What Microsoft doesn't want you to know about common reasons behind broken connections in cloud flows, especially in the M365 Copilot Workflows agent.

Jukka Niiranen

Mar 6, 2026

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21 min read

A decade of Dynamics 365

What happened with Microsoft's CRM offering between 2016 and 2026? More than you probably remember. And some things you've forgotten for a good reason.

Jukka Niiranen

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Feb 27, 2026

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16 min read

Clawpilot: no UI for AI

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.

Jukka Niiranen

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Feb 20, 2026

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23 min read

The UX for automation still sux

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.

Jukka Niiranen

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