Weekly perspectives: mysteries of Ignite 2024

Drilling into three interesting themes picked out from Microsoft's messages presented on the virtual stages of Ignite.

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Jukka Niiranen
November 28, 2024

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The less-than-obvious bits of Ignite 2024

By now you’ve most likely seen many social posts sharing the exciting news that Microsoft’s product marketing organization published during the week of Ignite. Nothing wrong with that. After all, events like this are about building up excitement around where Microsoft’s technology is heading towards.

Me, I’m always more interested in reading between the lines. Analyzing what is being said vs. what I can validate with my own eyes. 🧐 Figuring out what it means when something is not said. Connecting the message into the greater context. Exploring the real world beyond the happy path of demo scripts.

In the past week I’ve gone through loads of Ignite session recordings, downloading decks, reading MS announcement blog posts. Snooping on the MS Learn documentation updates via Git commits. (Yes, I actually do crazy stuff like that.)

Searching for Ignite related updates in MS Learn Git repos

Based on everything I’ve seen so far, I decided to put together a Mysteries of Ignite 2024 deck and talk about it. View the recording below from YouTube:

On the list of topics I cover are:

🛡️ The ever more managed Power Platform

Governance and admin related changes launched at Ignite. What’s really new & what is just a new way to show the old stuff?

🤖 Copilot Control System

What exactly is in this “system” that was mentioned many times on the grand keynote stage?

🔮 The future of apps

If everyone will have a personal AI assistant that works together with multiple agents, why do we need any more apps?

Check out the YouTube video for my thoughts on these three mysteries.

These posts and sessions were referenced in the video:

Ignite sessions

Blog posts

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