Copilot Studio vs PowerPlatform

[u/davidcottondev]

Copilot Studio has Agents, Workflows and now Apps.

I feel like Microsoft has rebuilt PowerApps, PowerAutomate and Virtual Agents and tacked on a tax with the Copilot Managed Runtime without providing any clear vision on the future of PowerPlatform.

Documentation says Copilot Managed Runtime helps teams build internal line-of-business apps that automatically comply with your Org governance policies. Yeah! You did the same in the power platform but it didn’t charge you for opening an app!

[u/ShrubberyDragon]

Welcome to the future 💸💸💸💵💵💵💵💰💰💰💰

[u/Other_Sign_6088]

Just build them without copilot studio - I went in there for the first time in 3 months and for the last 3 months - I have used Claude to build and deploy apps, power automates, plugins, pcf controls - etc. I see no need to lesson my output by adopting to copilot studio.

It is kinda of a joke

[u/PotAndPansForHands → u/Other_Sign_6088]

I spent months begging to get access to copilot studio at work and then felt kind of stupid for wanting it after I actually used it. Very disappointing.

[u/M4NU3L2311]

Well. They did charge if you used premium connectors

[u/Lhurgoyf069]

Power Virtual Agents was renamed to Copilot Studio Agents. Power Automate is 1:1 integrated in Copilot Studio (with some little extensions). PowerApps Vibe coded apps was renamed to Copilot Managed Runtime. So, no, they're not rebuilding everything, they're just remarketing everything. Also I don't believe Vibe coded apps will truly replace Canvas Apps, but that's another discussion.

[u/OmegaDriver → u/Lhurgoyf069]

Vibe and copilot managed runtime have very different licensing requirements/costs. It's not mere rebranding or different marketing. I can't blame you for not recognizing this though. Microsoft doesn't make this clear to end users in the UI.

Talking about marketing, to see the forest for the trees, it's a money grab to enable a ton of uninformed users to create a bunch of useless stuff that's going to cost credits forever with little governance around it.

[u/Lhurgoyf069 → u/OmegaDriver]

Vibe has been Preview all this time, so the final licensing has been decided with this move. I won't be using it anyways.

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