Microsoft‘s proposal to rename Power Apps portals as Power Pages has surfaced online ahead of its next Build developer conference later this month.
Several references to Microsoft’s new Power Pages have been seen online, including a video describing “How to develop a form using Microsoft Power Pages,” as reported by ZDNet and initially spotted by Twitter user WalkingCat.
It’s now evident that Power Pages is the new name for Microsoft’s Power App portals, based on one of the URLs mentioned in the leaked slides.
Power App portals, according to a Microsoft support article, is a website builder and web hosting platform for swiftly creating and launching business-focused websites.
The fact that Power App portals employ little code and configurable themes makes these sites easy to construct.
Aside from the web leaks of Power Pages, Microsoft itself mentioned the product in a recent Microsoft Dynamics blog post that has since been deleted.
According to the article, Microsoft is introducing Dataverse search capability to Power Apps portals/Power Pages, allowing users to utilise the search engine that is already used by model-driven apps.
Meanwhile, Microsoft complimented Power Apps portals and cited some examples of recent sites built using the service in a job posting for a senior software engineer, saying:
“Power Apps Portals is emerging to be one of the fast-growing capabilities of Power Platform for large organizations, education institutions, and governments around the world to quickly design and launch external data-centric websites. Examples of Power Apps Portal-powered sites include Government-to-citizen services like COVID-19 vaccination scheduling, Citizen 311 services, and Citizen FAQ sites.”
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