EPPC 2026: Power Platform roadmap balances customer requests, agentic ambitions

Microsoft leaders reported this week that Power Platform customers have made their preferences about the future clear: keep the platform strong, innovate on what’s already there, and use the services as a launchpad for innovation. 

Product leaders like Microsoft VP Leon Welicki, who addressed the European Power Platform Conference 2026 audience this week, acknowledged customer perspectives but also noted the company’s own goals like specific (but undisclosed) revenue and usage targets. And he explained that the Power Platform team will be aiming to improve efficiency of the services and increase AI adoption in meaningful scenarios.

“We see Power Platform as tools with compounding value,” Welicki told the event audience. “The way in which we are designing [the elements] is they are all parts of a larger tool set. And when you look at the toolset separated, [any one part is] strong, but not the strongest. But when you look at them all together, there are no tools that are stronger.”

In an EPPC 2026 session, Microsoft provided a range of examples of new and improved features across Power App, Power Pages, and Power Automate that will advance the tools and align with Microsoft’s AI outlook for business applications. 

Canvas Apps add agent co-authoring

In Canvas Apps, AI must be built on “a strong foundation and great experience,” Welicki said. Notable recent Canvas App improvement have been the GA of Modern Controls and the Grid Container. Modern templates are due later in July, and a new file attachment control is also planned for GA by August.

Microsoft is also bringing Canvas Apps a “co-authoring with agents” experience. Developers can bring agents in as needed to provide help throughout the app lifecycle, not just when creating them. For example, they will be able to do reviews, find security issues, run performance analysis, change apps, or create new ones. 

And a Canvas Authoring MCP Server, which is now in public preview, equips a coding agent with Canvas-specific tools. It supports model choice, a range of tools for discovering controls, connectors, and data sources, and it can also sync or compile Canvas apps with Power Apps Studio. In the next quarter, Microsoft expects to deliver organization-branded themes, improved co-authoring reliability, inline AI summaries in Dataverse-bound grids, and improved performance. They expect up to 30% reduction in app load times for complex apps and improved data retrieval performance.

Mobile app quality and offline improvements

Based on feedback, Microsoft is prioritizing Power Apps offline performance and the overall quality of native experiences.

“We are working right now [to introduce] the capability of creating native mobile applications with PowerApps,” Welicki said. The new native apps will not use WebView, he clarified. A private preview will begin in July 2026. Further technical priorities including offline, scanning, authentication, and support for native user interfaces. One example of a native capability in the future is the use of sensor data from a device in an app, like reading the temperature of freezers via a sensor as part of an inspection. 

"Whatever the device can do, your makers can now build,” he said. And native features will also find their way to Canvas apps, he added.

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