Jukka Niiranen

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Jukka Niiranen@jukkan· 29d

Microsoft wants your feedback - and they certainly are getting it in this thread about migrating from Project for the Web to Microsoft Planner. Copilot for Pottery actually sounds like a better idea than 90% of what MS has done with their Planner strategy so far.

"I just created a new project and Planner emailed EVERYONE IN MY DIVISION to let them know. But Microsoft Planner, unlike Project or Asana or Monday or any of its rivals, does not allow for import of tasks from Excel or other platforms, so Planner just emailed EVERYONE IN MY DIVISION to show them an empty task sheet. Perhaps instead of software, Microsoft could get into basket weaving or pottery or something that provides actual value for the world? "

Jukka Niiranen@jukkan· 29d

Sekä kiimaiset konsultit.

Jouko Turkka esittää: Kiimaiset konsultit.

Rangaistukseksi Suomen kansalle LinkedIn-evankelistojen tekoälypöhinästä.

Jukka Niiranen@jukkan· Jul 12

Microsoft has some amazing employees in Ireland and Luxembourg, if we look at how much profit they were able to generate. There's simply no other explanation to it: they must have digitally transformed their business by using Copilot to basically print money. blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issue...

Jukka Niiranen@jukkan· Jul 10

Kysyin huvikseni siltä tekoälyltä itseltään (GPT-5.6 Sol), miten tämä arvelee Microsoftin päästöjen kehittyvän vuosikymmenen aikana vs. alkuperäinen tavoite. Tässä tulos:

Jukka Niiranen@jukkan· Jul 10

Considering filing a trademark for Markdown Goose, now that this meme pic has 125k+ views in one day over on LinkedIn.⬇️🪿

Jukka Niiranen@jukkan· Jul 10

Microsoft reported a 25% YoY growth in emissions in its new Environmental Sustainability Report. blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issue... But that's FY25 data - meaning from one year ago. So, I took the new GPT-5.6 Sol for a spin and asked it to estimate what the FY26 (=now) emissions might look like:

From ChatGPT:

IMO, the worrying signal is not that FY25 rose 25%. That number is contaminated by a deliberate change in Scope 2 accounting.
The worrying signal is this combination:
Underlying emissions appear to have been growing at perhaps 10–15% already, and Microsoft then increased infrastructure investment by more than 60% in the following year while AI demand remained supply-constrained.
Efficiency is improving quickly. Clean-energy contracting is enormous: 40 GW contracted and 19 GW operating by FY25. � But those are now chasing a moving target.
GeekWire
The picture I get is not “AI caused a one-year emissions spike.” It is:
Microsoft has entered a phase where the physical growth rate of the cloud/AI factory is higher than the decarbonization system's ability to absorb it.
My expectation would therefore be another clearly higher bar in next year's chart—probably not another full 25% jump, but also very unlikely to be the plateau that the FY24 number briefly suggested.

Jukka Niiranen@jukkan· Jul 10

Soon, we'll see how this Copilot Leadership Team launches a Copilot Super App that will fix the issues with why customers dislike M365 Copilot. Or maybe it will just be more of the same aimless product juggling that has led Microsoft into this pickle. Thoughts: www.perspectives.plus/p/copilot-in...

Jukka Niiranen@jukkan· Jul 10

This is the way I'm happy to use AI to help me write: prompting Codex from the terminal to check my @beehiiv.com newsletter draft for typos and clarity. I get a clear list to review, then one command to apply the changes via MCP. The human in the loop gets smarter, readers get more readable text.

Jukka Niiranen@jukkan· Jul 9

Best of all, it's FREE!!! "Charging you would create real revenue, which would violate our principles."

Pricing
You literally cannot pay us. That's the whole point.
Charging you would create real revenue, which would violate our principles.

Jukka Niiranen@jukkan· Jul 9

In another exciting update, Microsoft again dodges the obvious question "why the f*** don't you support Markdown in your AI tools of all places?" Copilot Notebooks TXT and RTF support, MC1420894: admin.cloud.microsoft?ref=MessageC...

Goose chase meme template

M365 message center:
"Microsoft is expanding Microsoft 365 Copilot Notebooks to support TXT (.txt) and RTF (.rtf) files as reference sources. This update enables users to bring a broader range of text-based content—such as transcripts, meeting exports, developer notes, and AI-generated outputs—into a single AI-powered workspace. By grounding Copilot in more contextual information, this enhancement strengthens productivity and enables more comprehensive insights, summaries, and content generation."

Goose:
"What file format do developers and AI use the most?"

Jukka Niiranen@jukkan· Jul 9

Congratulations to OpenAI for reaching Microsoft level product management, with Codex app "reimagined" as ChatGPT Work and ChatGPT app renamed ChatGPT Classic. You are now Enterprise-Grade.🏆 openai.com/index/chatgp...

Jukka Niiranen@jukkan· Jul 8

Just because you're paying $30/mo for Microsoft 365 Copilot Premium, that doesn't mean the LLM selection wouldn't get replaced with cheaper MAI models to save MS money. If you pay for Cowork use with Copilot Credits on top of that $30, sure, then you can choose.😏 thenextweb.com/news/microso...

Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat vs. Copilot Cowork model selection.

Jukka Niiranen@jukkan· Jul 7

I was able to locate the DM section in my office CD archives pretty quick, but can't recall where all the Erasure release are stored. I did notice one Andy Bell album was right next to Music for the Masses, though.

Jukka Niiranen@jukkan· Jul 7

LinkedIn literally publishes a playbook that instructs users on this cringe.😐 www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

"Your hook is your headline, your scroll-stopper, your first impression.
If it doesn’t make someone pause, the rest doesn’t matter.
Gal Aga, CEO and founder of Aligned, rewrites posts that
don’t get traction in the first 15–30 minutes—his benchmark
is 1-2 likes per minute. That’s not vanity. That’s signal."

From the LinkedIn playbook:
Founder-led Sales And Marketing Never Ends

Jukka Niiranen@jukkan· Jul 6

Tunnin juna 🙅‍♂️ Kahden tunnin taksi 🥳

Eikö jo olisi kaiken esiintulleen aineiston valossa mutkattominta, että Petteri Orpo lähtisi vähin äänin Kahden Tunnin Taksilla takaisin Turkuun?

Jukka Niiranen@jukkan· Jul 6

Why be a boring Microsoft business apps blogger when you can be Finland's first female astronaut!👩‍🚀 I'm gonna stop using GPT, Claude, Gemini. From now on, Llama 3.2 is the only approved LLM.

intheweights.com results for Jukka Niiranen: Finnish Microsoft Business Applications (ex) MVP vs. Finland's first female astronaut.

Jukka Niiranen@jukkan· Jul 6

Customer: "$113k got me about 10x Fable 5 prompts 😭" Dario Amodei: "haha Claude bill go brrr" www.linkedin.com/posts/benjys...

LinkedIn post:

"Anthropic is literally the biggest scam in history.

Do NOT turn on Claude credits for your team!

Fable 5 Max quite literally blows your entire usage budget in 5 prompts.

This is intentional.

Anthropic wants you to "Turn on usage credits to keep using Claude if you hit a limit" so they can charge you $100k+ on pointless over-the-top compute usage.

Stop using the best models. They are uneconomical.

Just use Opus 4.8.
You're not doing rocket science.
You're vibe coding a niche software tool 100 people have already built."

Anthropic invoice: $113,421.87

Dario Amodei, hands raised, (fake) quote:

"...We enabled Fable and customer bill went from here to HERE!🚀"

Jukka Niiranen@jukkan· Jul 5

Finnish startup IQM has sold more quantum computers than IBM.

Jukka Niiranen@jukkan· Jul 3

Microsoft Copilot Studio is officially no longer under Power Platform - when it comes to roadmap communication. Release Planner website + API are empty, Copilot Studio now lives under Microsoft 365 roadmap. Which, unfortunately, breaks my Release Plans Browser site: releaseplans.net/updates

Release Plans Browser:

Error: Roadmap not found for Copilot Studio.

Jukka Niiranen@jukkan· Jul 3

4 years and 7 iterations later, Microsoft is calling it "Sales agent" today. Me, I still like the original Viva Sales name better. At least compared to all the Copilot versions. Full timeline constructed from MS Learn documentation page updates available here: vibes.jukkan.com/vibe-naming....

Microsoft Viva Sales
Microsoft Sales Copilot
Microsoft Copilot for Sales
Microsoft 365 Copilot for Sales
Sales solution in Microsoft 365 Copilot
Sales in Microsoft 365 Copilot
Sales agent

1y since first graphic - Congrats on Sales Agent GA!

Jukka Niiranen@jukkan· Jul 2

"We have never been stronger. So why does it feel like it is literally the worst time to be at Microsoft?" That was one year ago. How strong is MS now? Some thoughts on the toxic management & layoffs driving people out of #Microsoft and what we are left with: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Around 2 years ago everything changed. When it became clear that Microsoft was placing it's biggest bet on AI since Cloud, the culture shifted. Everything focused on delivering ROI on the massive AI investments. After the failure of the Metaverse and Augmented Reality investments, it certainly felt the time of growth mindset learning via fast failure was over and it was time to deliver at all costs on every investment, especially AI.

Making sure that Copilot and the partnership with OpenAI was forefront in every decision became apparent. Even as OpenAI has shifted from partner to competitor to Microsoft, it feels we have so much sunk capital and resource investment in ensuring that Copilot is a success that we are trying to demonstrate all the productivity benefits of AI to our customer by showing how we can internally trim as much operational expenditure out of Microsoft as possible.

Judson seems handcuffed by Amy, to the point where he's now taking a sabbatical. I know so many people at Microsoft either on leave for burnout or who have left over the past 12 months. Good people. Top performers who are just tired of giving their all for diminishing returns. The company has the highest stock price in its history. We are beating earnings estimates quarter after quarter. We have never been stronger. So why does it feel like it is literally the worst time to be at Microsoft?

It is really a paradox to me. Why when things are arguably the best in the history of Microsoft, is it time to treat your most valuable asset, the employees that drive your success, the worst? It really perplexes me.

Jukka Niiranen@jukkan· Jul 2

"WinRAR is the future. I predict all white collar jobs to be performed by WinRAR in 12-18 months."

Estimated yearly profit, WinRAR vs OpenAI

Jukka Niiranen@jukkan· Jun 30

Inevitabilism trendaa, koska enshittification on jo tullut todeksi: www.begiant.ca/stories/peop...

Jukka Niiranen@jukkan· Jun 30

This is the end Beautiful friend This is the end My only friend, the end ...The end of my M365 Copilot $30/mo plan and a move to the M365 Copilot Business $21/mo plan! Same AI, 30% cheaper. Because SMB and price discrimination.🥰 Loving my non-Enterprise Claude sub pricing, too. Small is beautiful.

Jukka Niiranen@jukkan· Jun 30

Finally the Dynamics 365 Sales plugin for Copilot Cowork actually works! Except that it won't do everything you need in managing CRM sales process data. Now, Cowork built me this list of what (probably) is and isn't supported via the Dataverse MCP vs. the full API. vibes.jukkan.com/cowork-d365-...

Cowork + Dynamics 365 Sales:
an agentic reality check

Jukka Niiranen@jukkan· Jun 30

”En ymmärrä, miksi muu maailma ei puutu peliin. Täällä rikotaan perustavanlaatuisia ihmisoikeuksia eikä kukaan tee mitään.” 🇺🇸🗽🦅 HS @ Washington www.hs.fi/kirjeenvaiht... 💎

Vahvalla aksentilla englantia puhuva Maria kertoo, että parissa kymmenessä vuodessa Yhdysvalloista on tullut kuin toinen maa.

Ennen Amerikka oli sulatusuuni, jossa saattoi tuntea olonsa tervetulleeksi. Nyt paikka, jossa aksentilla englantia puhuvaa korkeakoulutettua luullaan jatkuvasti siivoojaksi.

Maria haluaisi puhua suunsa puhtaaksi, mutta poikansa vuoksi hän varoo sanojaan. Nykyään Yhdysvalloissa saa pelätä. Etenkin republikaaniosavaltioissa, jollaisessa hän asuu.

Lapset pelkäävät, että äiti joutuu maahanmuuttoviranomaisten hyppysiin. Ei se aivan tuulesta temmattu huoli ole, Maria sanoo.

”En ymmärrä, miksi muu maailma ei puutu peliin. Täällä rikotaan perustavanlaatuisia ihmisoikeuksia eikä kukaan tee mitään.”

Marian poika näyttää pidättelevän kyyneleitä. Taustalla suihkulähde pulputtaa.

Jukka Niiranen@jukkan· Jun 30

In this case, all the Russian bots are claiming that a single drone warning in Helsinki would be a sign of the "war coming back".🤪 Well, guess we just gotta keep reminding real users about flaming oil refineries in Moscow, lack of safe exit routes from Crimea, by sharing the #SlavaUkraini footage.✌️

Jukka Niiranen@jukkan· Jun 29

2 more days of free Opus 4.8 usage left on the Copilot Cowork Frontier grace period. Why not put it to work on the really boring stuff, like summarizing Microsoft's legal docs for Dynamics 365 and Power Platform. vibes.jukkan.com/bizapps-tldr...

Copilot Cowork · plain-language TL;DR
Microsoft Business Apps legal terms,
minus the legal-ese
Power Platform + Dynamics 365 ship with a maze of agreements. Here's what the official legal landing page actually means — the interesting, surprising, and genuinely impactful bits — in human language.

📅 Source last updated
May 2025
🧠 Interpreted
29 June 2026
⏱️ ~6 min read
☕ Read this first
This is a Copilot Cowork interpretation of Microsoft's Business Applications legal landing page, rewritten for humans. It is not legal advice and is not the contract. Where this summary and the official terms ever disagree, the official terms win. Always click through before you make a decision.

Start here
🗺️
The legal landing page is a map, not the contract
Microsoft is explicit that this page is just a convenience overview of the terms covering Power Platform and Dynamics 365 (together, "Business Applications"). The documents it points to are the things you actually agreed to — and it warns that other services, software, and content "may be governed by additional or different terms not listed." Translation: the page is a directory. The binding rules live elsewhere, and the list isn't even exhaustive.

Jukka Niiranen@jukkan· Jun 28

The dangers of being exposed to a computer.⚠️ (Life Magazine, October 1967) blog.jgc.org/2026/06/the-...

People who work with computers—especially those being exposed to a machine for the first time—can become quite entranced with these qualities, finding in the computer a kind of alter ego. “Sometimes programmers just won't go home, take a bath or anything,” reports a computer man who has got over it himself. “They're like a kid falling in love with a hot rod. They'll sit there working with their newfound 'friend' 20 hours a day, just watching the lights and drinking coffee. After a while they get to looking pale and unhealthy. They sit there fascinated and just forget to eat.”

Jukka Niiranen@jukkan· Jun 28

Tips for all the other terminal n00bs who are trying to live with coding agent CLIs: install Zoxide to make directory navigation enjoyable. z [a few chars from recently visited directory] is all it takes now for me to get where I want, both in WSL and PowerShell. zoxide.org