Microsoft Launches Power Pages for Designing Business Websites (techcrunch.com) 25
Riding the wave of enthusiasm for no-code/low-code solutions, Microsoft today announced Power Pages, a standalone product within the company's Power Platform portfolio for creating business websites. Power Pages previously existed as a component within Power Apps called Power Apps portals, but it's been broken out and redesigned with a new user experience. From a report: "As a new, standalone product, Power Pages empowers anyone, regardless of their technical background, with an effective platform to create data-powered, modern, and secure websites," Sangya Singh, vice president of power portals at Microsoft, said in a blog post. "In addition to being low-code, Power Pages extends far beyond portals former capabilities to enable organizations of any size to securely build websites with exciting new aesthetic features and advanced capabilities for customization with pro-dev extensibility."
There's no shortage of web design startups on the market. But Microsoft is touting Power Pages' integrations with its existing services as the key differentiator. For example, Power Pages ties in with Visual Studio Code, GitHub, the Power Platform command line interface and Azure DevOps to let more advanced users automate development workflows (e.g. by downloading and uploading projects) and leverage CI/CD practices. Power Pages also allows users to implement role-based access controls and web app firewalls via Azure, and to collect and share business info with site visitors via Microsoft's Dataverse platform.
There's no shortage of web design startups on the market. But Microsoft is touting Power Pages' integrations with its existing services as the key differentiator. For example, Power Pages ties in with Visual Studio Code, GitHub, the Power Platform command line interface and Azure DevOps to let more advanced users automate development workflows (e.g. by downloading and uploading projects) and leverage CI/CD practices. Power Pages also allows users to implement role-based access controls and web app firewalls via Azure, and to collect and share business info with site visitors via Microsoft's Dataverse platform.
Integration with NON M$ things? (Score:4, Insightful)
But does it integrate with anything that's not Microsoft? Like actual databases, for instance.
And if history has taught us anything, this is probably going to create spaghetti that's impossible to maintain over versions, or impossible to get performant.
Re:Integration with NON M$ things? (Score:5, Funny)
What do you mean it says right in the article "Seamlessly works with Microsoft Access" just make sure to enable it with your webhost.
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+1, Funny
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If it's built off power platform you can integrate with pretty much any database.
sqlserver/oracle/mysql/postgres/any rest api/etc
And it integrates with git for change/release tracking.
so yes?
FrontPage Returns? (Score:1)
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Why didn't call it what it is.. FrontPage 365 or FrontPage 2022 ? Does FrontPage have a bad reputation or something?
My thought is that the "team" that is rolling this out wants credit. Using an old name would tell the public and other execs that it's nothing new. To me, it sounds more like a merging of front page and silverlight.
It looks like... (Score:5, Insightful)
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...Wordpress and Sharepoint had a mentally retarded baby.
I was going to say, "That is offensive to retards." But I am not allowed to say that, so let's just pretend nothing happened.use the Power Automate/
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"Up next on Maury, we'll reveal the DNA test that proves whether Microsoft Bob is the actual father of Wordpress and Sharepoint's baby. Stay tuned for the shocking results!"
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Seriously, wanna talk clusters? Adobe's AEM CMS [adobe.com] solution uses JAVA while Adobe's e-commerce solution, Magento [adobe.com] is PHP. And unlike open-source, all-encompassing solutions like Drupal, developers gotta pay to access & learn that commercial software from Adobe. No thank you Adobe, I'm just fine.
no code has code (Score:5, Informative)
I use the Power Automate/Flow product to handle some automation. I can tell you that it is a PITA to build those flows and there is code. The code looks like an Excel formula.
You want just the year from today's date in your time zone? That is 3 nested calls.
(slashdot thinks my example is ascii art)
You want to get part of the URL? That is 5 nested calls.
(slashdot thinks my example is ascii art)
What a nightmare, all in little GUI boxes that do not even show the entire line. This stuff is a joke.
Re: no code has code (Score:3, Interesting)
Every time I've looked at no-code/low-code stuff, I always see the same thing:
- You have to build complex flowcharts to do even basic stuff
- Something as simple as a variable is a PITA to create
- Most of what you need is buried in some kind of menu somewhere, and is much slower to reach than autocomplete
- Even ones that claim to be no-code seem to involve some code
- Every solution I've seen seems to have immense vendor lock-in, both in terms of the solution itself being proprietary and in terms of getting e
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it sounds like it is Website Stockholm Syndrome in a box: get involved so you can enjoy the pain today!! Brought to you by our Sirius Cybernetic Marketing Dept., our motto is "where do you want it THIS time?".
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Power Automate (Flow) does have many nice (or at least reasonable) integrations. The glue that you need to put between the parts you want to integrate is messy and hard to use at best. I just want to go to the code and be done with it.
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Edge browser only (Score:2)
Active X, Internet explorer deeply tied into the OS, front page extensions... The horrors that this all brought back to my frontal lobe are depressing. The new generation of techies building out solutions are likely too young to recall the particular flavor of evil MS is capable of. Don't trust the lock in.
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Where does it say Edge browser only? Or are you just making shit up?
I haven't seen anything released by microsoft that only works in Edge since edge was released. Up until they took the chromium engine there were actually microsoft products that worked in chrome and not edge itself.
Old microsoft crap from the 2000's and way early 2010s only work in edge, but that's because it includes a backwards compat IE engine. And stuff from those days deserve your ire.
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I haven't seen anything released by microsoft that only works in Edge since edge was released.
Just the other day the new O365 Exchange compliance center tools made me install Edge to use them. And then they didn't work in Edge or any other browser on Linux.
FrontPage for Web 3.0 (Score:2)
that is all
Didn't they do this already? (Score:1)
This is great news. (Score:1)
This is great news. (Score:1)