Have you ever asked, If you’re in that camp, there’s good news: A new AI update to the Windows Power Automate app may make that future a reality. Microsoft is finally adding Copilot-like capabilities to Power Automate, the “power macro” Windows app that you likely have never used. And one of the best additions will be the ability to literally talk the AI through the process.
It’s not here yet — it’s part of an early access program — but this could be an extremely powerful update when it finally arrives. For a period of time, . As the name suggests, IFTTT would look for an event or trigger, then react — if it gets too cold in your house, the heat comes on.
In 2021, Microsoft launched its own Windows clone, called , now just called Power Automate. Power Automate is great in concept, but rather complex to use. (Just look at the image below!) The whole point is to create a “flow,” sort of a superpowered macro for performing a task or series of tasks, even across multiple applications.
An example of a “flow” could be an email sent in Outlook to your boss, triggered by a value in a cell in Excel that exceeded some limit — evidence that trouble was brewing. But today, the Power Automate process is laborious and a little too much like code for most people. Even something simple — sending an automated email to your aunt on her birthday — seems like more trouble than it’s worth.
Power Automate tried to solve that by essentially looking over your should.
