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Chris McNulty
Former Employee
Oct 31, 2016
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GA: Microsoft PowerApps and Flow

Today, as we announced on the Office Blogs, we are proud to celebrate the general availability of Microsoft PowerApps and Flow.  These solutions represent the present and future of our ambition to re...
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  • Dean_Gross's avatar
    Dean_Gross
    Nov 30, 2016
    I'm confused by your response. What has MS discontinued in O365 without an upgrade path? SPD still works fine and the WFs it creates will continue to work for many years.
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jcgonzalezmartin
MVP
Nov 30, 2016
IMHO, there is not a guarantee that in 5 years Microsoft could have new tools and services to maybe replace PowerApps and Flow...5 years in an evergreen approach is simply too much so we have to rely on support provided by Microsoft as stated by Dean
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Bill Harrell
Copper Contributor
Nov 30, 2016

I really appreciate you weighing in.  Right now we are truly looking for opinions.  I think you are probably right and unfortunately that means for our product that we probably need to move in the direction of not counseling our customers to use Flow and to build this type of functionality ourselves so that we can make sure we have a consistent and upgradable option.

 

IMHO, I don't think that just because you have an evergreen offering that this means you should not offer a consistent and upgradeable solution.  IMHO this is a big mistake for MS to value tinkering and innovation above consistency.  If you want to solve real business problems for real businesses you simply can't undermine their efforts on a regular basis and think that those customers will continue to have confidence in your solutions.  Hey, this is why different businesses and models exist though right?

 

Thanks again,

 

Bill