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Public story · 2026-03-01 · source-backed
SiliconANGLE analysis reveals Microsoft is demoting Word/Excel/PowerPoint to "plugins" inside Copilot Pages. Office file formats function as CRUD databases that agents can read/write directly, bypassing the apps entirely. The "CRUD collapse" thesis has reached the C-suite: Nadella (Microsoft), McDermott (ServiceNow — "We are hungry and SaaS is for dinner"), and Vembu (Zoho) now publicly agree that app UI layers become optional when agents manipulate data directly.
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Microsoft supports MCP / Shared entities / Shared topic / What happened next
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Microsoft competes with Google / Shared entities / What happened next
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Microsoft competes with Google / Shared entities / Shared topic / What happened next
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Anthropic partners with Microsoft / Shared entities / Same source domain / What happened next
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Nadella works at Microsoft / Shared entities / Same source domain / Shared topic / What happened next
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Nadella works at Microsoft / Shared entities / Shared topic / What happened next
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