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How does the Power Platform Plan Designer and its team of AI agents perform when asked to build a real business solution?
I tried to build a Loan Application Suite with it. Some parts worked nicely, some were a disaster. Here's the story: https://www.perspectives.plus/p/can-plan-designer-create-real-power-platform-solutions
2025 wasn't the year I started using passkeys. I don't think 2026 will be the year either, since nothing about the vendor lock-in and UX hell seems to have significantly changed:
https://fy.blackhats.net.au/blog/2025-12-17-yep-passkeys-still-have-problems/
A modern site to browse and discover community tools for the Power Platform and Dynamics 365: XrmToolBox Plugin Catalog.
https://jukkaniiranen.com/2025/12/find-the-right-tool-in-xrmtoolbox/
An interesting detail there: Nadella has chosen to follow Twenty, an open-source #CRM. "Building a modern alternative to Salesforce", they claim. Hmm, is the Microsoft CEO also looking for a modern alternative to #Dynamics365 now?😅
Satya Nadella has been lazy with his GitHub account: no publilc repos, no contributions. But at least he has starred a few repos, so we can ask GitHub #Copilot to profile him:
https://github.com/saztd?tab=stars
Here's a recent video where Nadella shows the app he has built, revealing the user account (saztd): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEZADIErqyw
Q: Do we get Agent 365 as part of our Microsoft 365 E5 license?
A: No, you always pay extra.
This + some other updates about what know about A365 so far in my latest blog post on The Licensing Guide:
https://licensing.guide/microsoft-365-vs-agent-365-licenses/
"Global enterprise achieves 40,000 hours of productivity gains with Copilot."
This is the funniest thing I've read this week.😂
Reformatted from the N-bar post by Peter Girnus:
https://xcancel.com/gothburz/status/1999124665801880032
This is a pretty dismal result for the hyperscalers. Assuming half the workforce are knowledge workers (broadly defined), virtually all of them are using AI occasionally. But only 20 % of them are using it even daily, and no category for "central to my work"
https://www.gallup.com/workplace/699689/ai-use-at-work-rises.aspx
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