Microsoft has released updates for Power Apps, as well as their plan for additional updates this year.  These updates contain enhancements to assist you in building your power apps and tailoring them to your specific needs.
What are Power Apps?
Power Apps is a collection of applications, connectors and services that sit on top of a common data platform to allow you to build powerful apps for your business.

Microsoft has been continuing their quest to reduce the number of button clicks and screen changes a user experiences while working with Dynamics 365 Model-Driven Apps.  Previously, navigation features like Modal Windows required custom JavaScript to utilize, but more and more UI features are being made available in the Power Apps editor.

Microsoft has recently released new updates to Dynamics 365 Sales with new and improved functionality.  Additionally, Microsoft has identified new and exciting features planned for release later this year.
What is Dynamics 365 Sales?
Dynamics 365 Sales is an industry-leading sales tool designed to maximize sales teams' productivity.

Websites come in many different shapes and sizes.  They can run on a variety of platforms and use several different coding languages.  Despite these differences, all clients want the same the same result from their websites … deliver an easy way to capture and track their website leads in their CRM system.

Small- or medium-sized business (SMB) owners may think they’re unimportant enough to be targeted by hackers. But the truth is that SMBs are prime targets for hackers since they see these organizations — which have less security and fewer resources compared to enterprises — as easy marks.

The Dynamics 365 and Power Platform 2023 Release Wave 1 is here, and it brings new innovations that will provide significant capabilities to transform your business. While this release wave of the year offers hundreds of new features and enhancements across all of their applications, I'm excited on what's coming for Customer Insights and Pro Development.

If you've been keeping up with the sweeping changes happening around the Microsoft Power Platform, you're probably familiar with the term Power Fx.  It's mentioned throughout Microsoft's more modern documentation, and you've likely seen some areas in your configuration components that accept custom Power Fx scripts.

Dynamics has a new tool to define and configure commands throughout your app, and it's called Command Designer.  This tool aims to replace the old "ribbon" button design, now called "classic commands." This was very difficult to customize with code and impossible to customize without.

Businesses use Microsoft Excel to record sales, manage finances, and track inventory levels, among other activities. The new version of Microsoft Excel for Windows offers some great new features and functions that will make your life easier.
Features exclusive to Excel for Microsoft 365
The following new features are available for Excel for Microsoft 365, but not its long-term servicing channel (LTSC) version, which was formerly known as the “perpetual license” version.

The Power Platform ecosystem keeps getting bigger and more capable.  Microsoft continues to add functionality to existing components of the platform while simultaneously releasing new ones.  One of the newest components (still in preview as of the writing of this blog) to Power Platform is "Cards.