Celebrating the first graduates of the Microsoft Power Up Program

Dimpi Gandhi, Principal PM Lead, Power Up Program, Wednesday, March 22, 2023

Microsoft is a leader in enterprise low-code application platforms. We’re excited to announce that our first 18 learners have successfully graduated from the Microsoft Power Up Program, a 12-week skilling program designed to enable non-technical professionals to successfully advance their careers with low-code application development using Microsoft Power Platform technologies. Congratulations, graduates! Power Up Program popularity […]

Explore new capabilities in Microsoft Power Apps at the Microsoft Business Applications Launch Event

Ryan Cunningham, VP, Power Apps, Wednesday, March 22, 2023

Businesses today are constantly facing new and bigger challenges. Technology is diversifying and evolving faster than ever to address these issues, giving industries across the board a growing number of solutions to sift through.

Now in preview: CoE Starter Kit backed by data from self-serve analytics data export

Manuela Pichler, Principal Program Manager, Tuesday, March 21, 2023

In 2019, we launched the Center of Excellence (CoE) Starter Kit – a set of templates that are designed to help you get started with developing a strategy for adopting, maintaining and supporting Microsoft Power Platform, with a focus on Power Apps and Power Automate. In the past three years we’ve continued to evolve and innovate as we learn from our customers. Today we’re excited to announce that the CoE Starter Kit can now use data provided by self-serve analytics as a foundation for inventory and telemetry, enabling rich insights built for scale.

Try the new Power Fx Formula Bar in Power Apps Studio

Chris Baldwin, Principal Product Manager, Power Apps Studio, Monday, March 20, 2023

A new Power Fx editing experience Today we are announcing a new Power Fx formula editing experience in Power Apps Studio.  The new formula editor is available an experimental feature that we encourage you to turn on in your apps and try out!  The new editor is based on the powerful Monaco shared code editor […]

New: Request a Power Apps premium license from org admins

Zankar Desai, Principal Product Manager, Monday, March 20, 2023

Power Apps is excited to share that users can now request a license from their admin – directly in product! If a user is trying to run an app that requires a license, they will see the option to ‘Request a license’, in addition to the buy a license or start a trial option (if […]

Releasing the February Update for the Developer Tools (Power Platform CLI)

Kartik Kanakasabesan (HE/HIM), Principal Program Manager, Monday, March 20, 2023

We are happy to finally release our February update for the Power Platform CLI. For those of you who are new, our pattern has been that we release an update for the work done in the last month, in the current month. Usually, we each include some new capabilities, along with the usual fixes that […]

Announcing a next-generation AI Copilot in Microsoft Power Apps that will transform low-code development

Ryan Cunningham, VP, Power Apps, Thursday, March 16, 2023

Today, we’re announcing a next-generation AI Copilot in Microsoft Power Apps that will transform how we build and interact with software applications. With the power of large language models, we are advancing to the next step in the evolution of code abstraction—moving from custom code, to low-code, to natural language authoring where human and machine work side by side to build applications together.

Announcing Tenant Switcher in Power Apps Mobile

Tristan Dehove, Principal Program Manager, Wednesday, March 15, 2023

Projects can cross company boundaries. Users need to be able to access all the apps shared to them from any tenant on all of their devices. For these scenarios, Power Apps lets users share apps with guest users from other tenants. I’m happy to announce that now it is very easy for guest users to […]

Easily design and automatically send actionable, data-driven cards in Teams

Anthony Uitz, Principal Product Manager, Wednesday, March 8, 2023

Cards for Power Apps is a recent addition to the low code lineup, announced as public preview in September, that empowers business users and developers alike to create interactive, embeddable, data-driven, lightweight mini-apps that bring context and actions directly into Teams conversations. Today we are excited to announce that cards for Power Apps can be […]

Announcing admin-configured maker welcome experience in Power Apps

Caitlin Shaw, Monday, March 6, 2023

We are pleased to announce that admin-configured maker welcome content is now available for the Power Apps maker portal. Today, admins rely on sending welcome emails, creating wikis, and setting up internal portals to educate makers. Since this information can be presented in so many different places, makers may miss important communication. With the maker […]