Inside the new Power Apps: The future of app development

This week at Microsoft Ignite 2025, we’re unveiling a new era for Microsoft Power Apps. We are redefining what it means to build with AI with a reimagined experience that makes building apps as intuitive as describing your idea, seamless integration between apps and agents, and the ability to host and manage all your apps in one place. It’s a leap forward in how every maker, developer, and Frontier Firm can innovate and modernize with confidence.

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Here are the key announcements:

Introducing the new Power Apps—a completely new developer experience at vibe.powerapps.com that combines the speed and simplicity of vibe coding together with the enterprise scalability of Microsoft Power Platform. Makers of all skill levels, from business users to pro developers, can now collaborate with a team of agents that work together to define requirements, create a data model, and now code a full-stack application in minutes.

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Apps, agents, and Microsoft 365 Copilot now work seamlessly together, creating a unified AI-assisted experience across business and productivity applications. With Microsoft 365 Copilot in Power Apps, users can bring the full power of Copilot (including its agents like Researcher and Analyst) right in context in their apps, working over business data and the Microsoft Graph. With the new Power Apps Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server, agents can now use app skills like intelligent form filling—making it possible to automate work and interact with business processes well beyond the application. And, an upgraded agent feed keeps users in command of the work those agents are up to.

Power Platform’s premium capabilities for managing governance, security, operations, and availability continue to expand. The managed platform now features new inventory and usage reporting, helping administrators get instant visibility across apps, automations, and agents. And these benefits are no longer restricted to apps built on the platform—developers can now deploy to Power Platform from any development environment, enriching their apps with Microsoft Entra authentication and authorization, plus governed access to more than 1,400 connectors. These apps natively integrate with inventory, data loss prevention policies, sharing limits, deployment pipelines, and health metrics. With the ability to host and govern code apps on Power Platform, developers can quickly build and deploy line-of-business (LOB) apps while administrators manage everything seamlessly.

With these innovations, and many new related updates in Microsoft Copilot Studio and Microsoft 365 Copilot, Microsoft is paving the way for makers and organizations to rethink how business applications are built, deployed, and managed.

For makers, this means turning ideas into apps faster than ever before using natural language, collaborative agents, and built-in intelligence to accelerate development. For organizations, it delivers a unified, secure platform where AI-generated, low-code built, or coded apps can all be governed and scaled with confidence.

By fusing AI-powered creation, agentic collaboration, and enterprise-grade management, Microsoft is paving the path for the next generation of app makers, empowering them to build the apps of the future, today.

The app development platform for Frontier Firms

Power Apps is the leading low-code platform, recognized by analysts and trusted by customers worldwide. With every release, we’re helping organizations move from idea to impact faster and more confidently.

We’ve previously introduced plans to guide makers from concept to production, along with built-in AI assistance that helps with tasks like filling forms, visualizing data, and generating summaries and insights. These enhancements make it easier for makers to build apps that grow more valuable over time—continuously improving as solutions evolve and adapt.

Now, we are introducing a reimagined agentic experience for building full-stack apps on an enterprise-grade platform. Power Apps doesn’t just know what you want to build, it understands why. Makers describe what they need in natural language, and a team of agents gets to work—using specialized skills to outline detailed user stories and requirements, propose an optimized data model, and write the full-stack code for a modern, business-ready app. Apps can include APIs, forms, and user interface components. They are refined through ongoing conversation with the agents as well as point-and-click interactions in real time.

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Seamless collaboration between people and AI

Human-agent collaboration is at the heart of the Frontier Firm vision, combining human creativity with AI capabilities to boost business efficiency and productivity. This collaboration works seamlessly across productivity apps, business software, and AI-powered experiences. At Microsoft Ignite 2025, we’re taking it a step further.

App capabilities are now available to agents. Powered by the Power Apps MCP Server, agents can now use app capabilities such as form completion, data exploration, visualization, or even requesting human input when needed. Wherever users work, they can invoke agents to perform these actions, just as they would within the app itself.

For example, while reading an email in Outlook, users can ask Copilot to update a record in Power Apps based on the thread without having to navigate to the app or manually enter data.

For organizations, agents equipped with app capabilities can also operate autonomously to boost productivity. Instead of users manually entering data one form at a time, an autonomous agent can identify the right information and complete forms when needed. For example, when an Outlook message containing customer updates arrives, it can trigger an agent to process those updates using the form-fill capability. And when a task can’t be completed automatically, the agent can request human input, flagging the necessary action in the evolved agent feed.

Microsoft 365 Copilot now fully extends into your apps. Context flows from productivity tools into business applications, allowing for questions, summaries, and actions while drawing on both app data and Microsoft Graph. First-party agents like Researcher and Analyst, along with custom agents, are available in a single interface. For example, you can analyze app data and Microsoft 365 content, then draft a PowerPoint presentation from the results—without switching tools. Starting December 10, 2025 customers will have the opportunity to preview the unified Copilot chat experience in the model-driven apps in early release environments.

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Agent feed provides a shared space for humans and agents to collaborate. It supports smooth handoffs, prioritizes actions by urgency, and supports richer experiences for users giving organizations visibility, control, and lower operational effort.

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Together, these advancements make it easy for Power Apps customers to shift more of the repetitive work of business apps to agents while reimagining new app experiences that are intelligent and highly productive.

Governance and scale for the modern app ecosystem

With the rapid growth of vibecoded apps, agents, and automations, organizations need simple, transparent, and reliable governance—Power Platform provides that managed platform for all apps. Developers can build apps using Microsoft tools like App Builder and Power Apps or their preferred third-party solutions, then deploy them all on a single managed platform. Admins can rely on Power Platform admin center (PPAC) for comprehensive security, availability, and operational oversight across all apps, automations, and agents at a massive scale. The managed platform is continually improving to make governance more efficient and effective. 

The new inventory view in PPAC gives tenant administrators a comprehensive view of their apps and agents across their organization. This makes it easy to quickly understand what’s happening in their environment, identify top innovators by tracking who creates the most agents and apps, detect nonapproved resource regions to ensure compliance, rank environments by resources to prioritize governance and security efforts, find and reassign resources owned by departing users to maintain continuity, or even locate agents referenced in support tickets to speed up responses.

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New usage insights spotlight high-impact resources and makers, helping organizations identify what’s driving value and where to focus investment. With insights directly in PPAC where admins already manage and govern their ecosystem, they will be able to drill down into the usage of apps, automations, and agents to identify the top usage-driving apps. This makes it easier to engage with makers, review the ownership rules, ensure business continuity, and report the impact to leadership.

The improved advisor now acts as an agentic Center of Excellence (CoE), proactively guiding admins with recommendations to strengthen security and governance.

Code apps hosted in Power Apps give developers the flexibility of custom code combined with the reliability of the platform. Customers can rapidly build enterprise-grade solutions with built-in security and seamless integration across more than 1,400 data connectors, without managing cloud infrastructure. Full control over performance, governance, and lifecycle management ensures mission-critical applications can scale, evolve, and stay secure.

Learn more

Join us at Microsoft Ignite 2025 to see how the next generation of Power Platform and Microsoft Copilot is transforming app development. Explore these must-attend sessions and get hands-on with the future:

BRK322: The future of Power Platform: AI-powered and enterprise-grade Speaker: Ryan Cunningham 

BRK323: Power Apps: Reimagine the human-agent collaborationSpeakers: Evan Lew and Miti Joshi

BRK324: Power Platform: Innovation across apps, automation, and portalsSpeakers: Tiffany Treacy and Marc Schweigert

BRK275: Create apps with Microsoft 365 Copilot and App BuilderSpeakers: Clay Wesener and Emma Cooper

BRK307: Overview of managed solutions and secure ops in Power PlatformSpeakers: Ryan Jones

BRK321: From flows to agents: Modernizing with Copilot Studio + Power AutomateSpeakers: Jonathan Kendall and Mustapha Lazrek

THR771: Create dynamic app experiences for personal and team productivity Speakers: Anthony Uitz and Emma Cooper

THR770: An agentic app—where human-agent collaboration happensSpeakers: Matt Hidinger and Hemant Gaur 

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