JULY 2026 STATUS
A newsletter for people who want to make sense of Microsoft Power Platform, Copilot, and licensing. Written for practitioners who need the honest opinion, not a marketing story.
PlusJuly 3, 2026
No one can ignore .md files anymore when working with AI tools. Yet Microsoft 365 isn't exactly embracing this token-friendly format for managing knowledge.
June 26, 2026
Microsoft customers should not settle for using only first-party app generators when today's prompt-to-app AI tools can do so much more.
PlusJune 18, 2026
AI agents aren't yet doing all the work for us. What they are getting extremely good at is the creation of new tools. And that's the addictive part.
PlusJune 12, 2026
Microsoft's agentic AI product map just keeps getting bigger. Are we any closer to finding the coveted treasure of truly autonomous agent workers?
June 5, 2026
The past five years changed my thinking on how ordinary people will work with code. From Claude Code to OpenClaw, here are the lessons a former low-code evangelist has learned.
May 29, 2026
DynamicsMinds 2026 has once again shown what the BizApps community spirit is all about.
PlusMay 22, 2026
Why does Microsoft have different orchestration engines behind Copilot Studio and M365 Copilot agents, codenamed "Samba" and "Sydney"?
PlusMay 15, 2026
For years, Power Platform customers and partners relied on a free Kit from Microsoft to govern their apps and automations. What happens now when its maintenance ends?
PlusMay 8, 2026
Launching a new Plus content format to go beyond individual newsletter issues and cover the full depth of complex topics. Starting with Power Platform licensing, of course!
April 30, 2026
The pro-dev conference Update Days Power Platform 2026 in Prague this week made it clear how things will never be the same again for low-code development.
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Where Microsoft's AI ambitions meet the reality of shipping, selling, and governing Copilot in the enterprise.
Practitioner-grade critique of the platform: what works, what's been quietly re-shipped, and what the roadmap actually delivers.
The working writer's stack: markdown, code, spreadsheets, and the small tools that outlast every keynote demo.
Following the money and the fine print — the licensing spaghetti, capacity models, and product decisions that shape customer risk.
Plus subscribers get the extended weekly analysis — the pieces where the licensing math is worked out end-to-end, the roadmap is stress-tested against how the technology performs in practice, and the deep dives that don't fit in a free post.
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