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Power BI January 2026 Feature Summary

20 January, 2026 by Katie Murray

The January 2026 Power BI Feature Summary is packed with exciting news—there are fresh updates, important announcements, and some big changes, especially around upcoming events, feature retirements, and the latest in AI and Copilot advancements. Some of the standout features include new reporting tools, smarter data modeling options, enhanced resources for developers, broader global standards …

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Power BI Desktop March Feature Summary

This month is a very exciting month for us! We are making several of our most popular connectors generally available, including SAP HANA. Bookmarking is also now generally available, which means you can start creating bookmarks from scratch in the Power BI Service. We are also previewing a powerful feature, report page tooltips, that lets you use visuals in your own custom designed tooltips.

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Share your Power BI content with anyone by email

I’m excited to announce the ability to share content with users using their personal email accounts, making it easier to share data with people outside of your organization. Previously, you could…

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BI Bake Off at Gartner Data and Analytics Summit 2018

Features
4 March, 2018 by Will Thompson

Today we presented at the BI Bake Off session at Gartner Data and Analytics Summit in Grapevine, Texas and we are happy to share the report with everyone in this post.

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On-premises data gateway February update is now available

Announcements
27 February, 2018 by Youssef Shoukry

We are excited to announce that we have just released the February update for the On-premises data gateway. Here are some of the things that we would like to highlight with this month’s release: You…

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Power BI Developer community February update

This blog post covers the latest updates for Power BI Developers community. Don’t forget to check out the January blog post, if you haven’t done so already. Power BI Embedded Here is the list of…

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Gartner recognizes Microsoft as a leader in Analytics and BI platforms for 11 consecutive years

Announcements
27 February, 2018 by Arun Ulagaratchagan

Today we’re thrilled to announce that for the 11th consecutive year, Microsoft has been positioned as a leader in Gartner’s 2018 Magic Quadrant for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms.* And for the third year, Microsoft is positioned furthest to the right for completeness of vision within the Leaders quadrant.

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Automatically install apps

Announcements
23 February, 2018 by Lukasz Pawlowski

I’m excited to announce the ability to automatically install apps for end users, making it easier to distribute the right apps to the right set of people. Apps deliver data that your end users need…

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2/21 Webinar: Be a Full Stack Power BI Jedi – A walkthrough of Power BI most advanced features through Star Wars data

Announcements
21 February, 2018 by Charles Sterling

Be a Full Stack Power BI Jedi – this week’s webinar walks through of Power BI most advanced features through Star Wars data with Power BI MVP, Gil Raviv.

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Sessions for Data & BI Summit now available

Announcements
20 February, 2018 by Miguel Martinez

The Data & BI Summit, held in Dublin, Ireland 24-26 April is quickly approaching and we are happy to announce that the schedule planner and sessions details are now available.

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Announcing the Power BI Usage Metrics Solution Template

Announcements
20 February, 2018 by Christopher Finlan

Today, we want to highlight one of the newest solution templates available on AppSource, the new Power BI Usage Metrics Solution Template, built by our partner Neal Analytics.

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