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Jukka Niiranen

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Power Platform Advisor. Former 11x #Microsoft MVP. #Lowcode 4 life. Read my perspectives on #PowerPlatform at https://perspectives.plus/

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Jukka Niiranen @jukkan.bsky.social · Jul 23

🎬 #PROMPTSPOTTING
👇 The unofficial movie poster:

Choose Copilot.
Choose auto-complete you never asked for.
Choose Copilot buttons crammed into every ribbon.
Choose being kicked from app to chat and back again.
Choose four Copilots with the same name and none that fit the task.

Movie poster on the street, in the style of Trainspotting, with Mark Renton laughing hysterically at you.

PROMPTSPOTTING

Choose Copilot.
Choose auto-complete you never asked for.
Choose Copilot buttons crammed into every ribbon.
Choose being kicked from app to chat and back again.
Choose four Copilots with the same name and none that fit the task.
Choose hidden paywalls.
Choose cloud lag.
Choose hallucinated “facts.”
Choose code that won’t compile.
Choose transcripts no one reads.
Choose privacy swapped for “productivity.”
Choose your carefully crafted prompt eaten away as Copilot stops responding.
Choose dashboards that have never been opened.
Choose AI glitter over real fixes.
Choose agents over apps.
Choose hearing “we should use AI for this” when no one in the room knows what the f*** that even means.
Choose watching a marketing demo with perfectly groomed prompts that never work in real life.
Choose rotting away at the office as Copilot thanks you for your service via Teams chat before disabling your user account.

Choose your future.
Choose Copilot.

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Tom Warren @tomwarren.co.uk · 3h

GitHub is moving to Azure, and it's asking product teams to pause some new features to prioritize the server migration. GitHub's CTO revealed the news in an internal memo. All the details in my Notepad 📒 newsletter this week, live for subscribers 👇 www.theverge.com/tech/796119/...

Microsoft is moving GitHub over to Azure servers

Most of the migration will happen within 12 months

www.theverge.com

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Jukka Niiranen @jukkan.bsky.social · 9h

90% of users choose ChatGPT, 2-3% go for Copilot.

Sure, just another small snapshot from one security vendor. Which surprisingly aligns with the ~2% adoption rate of paid #Copilot subscription among Microsoft 365 customers.

Oh well, let's just give MS more time to sell licenses. Right?😁

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Sami Laiho @samilaiho.com · 11h

krebsonsecurity.com/2025/10/shin...

ShinyHunters Wage Broad Corporate Extortion Spree

A cybercriminal group that used voice phishing attacks to siphon more than a billion records from Salesforce customers earlier this year has launched a website that threatens to publish data stolen fr...

krebsonsecurity.com

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Jukka Niiranen @jukkan.bsky.social · 11h

Onko jollekin alustalle tällainen? Ainakin Androidilla nimenomaan itseä ärsyttää se, että pankkiasiointi ja marketin tarjouskupongit ovat sen yhden ja saman S-mobiili -appsin takana.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 22h

just an obscene lie, but because it's "will be" nothing happens. Oracle is posting razor-thin gross profit margins (which do not mean they're actually making a profit, by the way!). Oracle lost $100m in three months on renting out Blackwell GPUs.

www.theinformation.com/articles/int...

In the three months that ended in August, Oracle generated around $900 million from rentals of servers powered by Nvidia chips and recorded a gross profit of $125 million—equal to 14 cents for every $1 of sales, the documents show. That’s lower than the gross margins of many nontech retail businesses.

As sales from the business nearly tripled in the past year, the gross profit margin from those sales ranged between less than 10% and slightly over 20%, averaging around 16%, the documents show.

In some cases, Oracle is losing considerable sums on rentals of small quantities of both newer and older versions of Nvidia’s chips, the data show. A spokesperson for Oracle, which doesn’t publicly disclose the AI cloud server unit’s financials, did not have a comment on those figures.

The 14% gross margin figure appears to take into account the labor, power and other direct costs of running Oracle data centers, including depreciation expenses for some of the equipment. Other unspecified depreciation expenses would eat up another 7 percentage points of margin, the documents show. Equity analysts such as Gil Luria from D.A. Davidson say they tend to account for depreciation of chips and other data center equipment when calculating a cloud provider’s gross margin, as the equipment is a key cost of selling cloud services.

That dynamic seems to contradict Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s recent comment that the release of newer chips essentially wipes out demand for older ones.

Oracle’s margins are also affected by how many of its servers customers are actually using—and paying for. Utilization of Oracle’s GPU cloud servers ranges between 60% and 90%, depending on the type of Nvidia chip that powers them, according to internal documents.

In the three months that ended in August, Oracle lost nearly $100 million from rentals of Nvidia’s Blackwell chips, which arrived this year. That’s partly because there is a period between when Oracle gets its data centers ready for customers and when customers start using and paying for them, the documents show. It’s not clear what causes the gap or how Oracle plans to shorten it.

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 18h

Ben Thompson argues that OpenAI commuting to spend $1 trillion dollars over the next five years on AI infrastructure and investments makes them the Windows of AI.

Honestly this sounds more like being the FTX of AI by spending money they don’t have to prop up the ecosystem.

OpenAI’s Windows Play

OpenAI is making a play to be the Windows of AI: the all-encompassing platform that controls both hardware supplier and software developers.

stratechery.com

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Jukka Niiranen @jukkan.bsky.social · 23h

I'd call it "legendary", but whatever.🤷‍♂️

Jukka Niiranen @jukkan.bsky.social · 1d

After all, the MVP award is not meant for people who open support tickets and wait for someone else to help. Its for the Crazy Ones who believe they can fix things that Microsoft shipped as broken.😁

Jukka Niiranen @jukkan.bsky.social · 1d

For my 11th disc, I would have really needed instructions. Because it didn't fit on the trophy like all the previous ones.😅

I had to use a hammer and a small piece cracked from it as a result. But anyway, now it's proudly stuck there as the final layer on the stack.

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your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · 1d

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> Lol the timing; I work in IT for a large publishing company - and my god the meetings with microsoft sales team is all AI AI AI COPILOT COPILOT COPILOT.
> I had to flat out tell their VP we're not buying any fucking copilot - whereupon she revealed that the only thing she is being measured on for Q4 is sales of copilot, so if that's off the table the conversation is not interesting. LMAO

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Jukka Niiranen @jukkan.bsky.social · 1d

I don't usually dare to submit my articles to Hacker News as I'm not sure how that audience reacts to my takes on Microsoft products. This time around, I'm glad I did.

Hello to all the newsletter subscribers outside my usual Power Plaform bubble!👋

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4547...

Jukka Niiranen @jukkan.bsky.social · 1d

Meemin arvoinen innovaatio!👏

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Jukka Niiranen @jukkan.bsky.social · 1d

Note that 40 years ago, when Microsoft Excel was launched, you had to be a Mac user to run it. mstdn.social/@dirkdierick... #Excel #Excel40

Jukka Niiranen @jukkan.bsky.social · 1d

I still believe Excel cannot be beaten - no matter how hard Microsoft tries to crumble its reliability with LLMs. Here's what I wrote on the 40th birthday of #Excel:

jukkaniiranen.com/2025/09/exce...

Excel cannot be beaten - Jukka Niiranen blog

40 years on, the champion of business apps remains undefeated. The reasons SaaS apps replace spreadsheets are the same reasons users hold on to Excel.

jukkaniiranen.com

Jukka Niiranen @jukkan.bsky.social · 1d

To be precise, what Microsoft calls vibe working was about the Agent Mode feature in Excel. Those are built on Claude rather than OpenAI GPT, which runs this COPILOT() function in the Azure cloud.

www.microsoft.com/en-us/micros...

Vibe working: Introducing Agent Mode and Office Agent in Microsoft 365 Copilot | Microsoft 365 Blog

Microsoft Copilot introduces Agent Mode in Office apps, enabling smarter document creation, analysis, and collaboration across Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.

www.microsoft.com

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Jukka Niiranen @jukkan.bsky.social · 1d

Missing data from Power Platform Monitor seems to have been fixed. As for the Monitor Alerts, their reliability is more like a coin flip. I know, because I built a Coin Flip cloud flow to run on a daily basis in my Managed Environment.

4/6 alerts success rate.🎰

www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Power Platform Monitor Alerts results for a coin flip cloud flow that produces failed runs on a weekly basis - yet doesn't always trigger the Alert.

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jurgen @jurgen.ca · 1d

Ah yes, the famous Frexcel, eWord, and Owerpoint.

Tom Warren @tomwarren.co.uk · 1d

Microsoft’s new Office icons are now available in TestFlight versions of Excel, Word, and PowerPoint on iOS

Jukka Niiranen @jukkan.bsky.social · 1d

What if Excel, a thing that calculates numbers, was less reliable but burned more energy?

We're proud to introduce the era of "vibe working"!
-MS

social.coop/@eb/11532835...

Copilot in excel is asked to "sum the numbers above", which are 1, 2, and 3. In the fourth row, the output is presented: 15. To the right, a tooltip asking for feedback on the AI output is presented.

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Kevin Beaumont @doublepulsar.com · 2d

Just sayin’

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Wes Miller @getwired.com · 2d

That could help explain why everything sucks.

Abbey 8647 @abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 2d

Trump Adviser Admits Larry Ellison Is "Shadow President of the United States"

A Trump adviser admitted to a Wired reporter that Larry Ellison is a "shadow president of the United States."

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Keskiluokkakapina @keskiluokkakapina.bsky.social · 2d

Syyllinen Suomen ankeuteen on löytynyt. Sehän ei ole hallitus, vaan etätöitä tekevä keskiluokka, joka ei voi/halua kuluttaa.

Näin Elinkeinoelämän keskusliitto päivän HS:ssa meille kertoo.

Pahoittelemme asiaa, mutta emme aio muuttaa toimintaamme.

Planeetta ei kestä Elinkeinoelämän keskusliittoa.

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 3d

Fascism is here, it’s just not evenly distributed. Both documented & undocumented immigrants are definitely deleting their socials and keeping heads down at the risk of being disappeared.

While the average white American citizen isn’t being oppressed by the government. It doesn’t mean no one is.

Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 3d

If we were living under fascism, none of you would be here daring to post things. You'd be erasing your social media accounts and keeping your head down; you'd know that peacocking your faux-bravery on a network would expose you to being disappeared.
You have no idea what "fascism" really means.

shane @mouthfulofcavities.bsky.social · 3d

the regime is zip tying toddlers and ripping them away from their mothers unclothed... calling it fascism upsets this neo-con.

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 3d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Jukka Niiranen @jukkan.bsky.social · 3d

100+ comments on Hacker News on my "Microsoft 365 Copilot's commercial failure" post have a slightly different tone than those on LinkedIn from mainly MS partners. Who would have thought?😁
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4547...

Sure, there's off-topic comments on HN about generic #Copilot gripes, too

Jukka Niiranen @jukkan.bsky.social · 3d

Please block/mute me if you can't stand AI used for parody purposes. Because there's plenty more where that came from.