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Nadella explicitly stated, "I think the notion that business applications exist—that's probably where they'll all collapse in the agent era." This statement sends shockwaves through the industry because Microsoft, the company behind Windows, Office, and a vast swath of the software ecosystem, is essentially warning of an impending overhaul in software structures.
The core of this transformation, Nadella explains, is that what we currently classify as "software" is predominantly a fancy interface layered over databases managing data operations. He distills the essence of modern applications into a simple acronym: CRUD — Create, Read, Update, Destroy. In other words, applications are primarily pretty controllers that interact with underlying data repositories.