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Power BI January 2026 Feature Summary

January 20, 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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Find more insights in your Power BI dashboards with Quick Insights

Announcements
April 28, 2016 by Patrick Baumgartner

New Quick Insights capability allows you to search dashboard tiles for hidden insights automatically within seconds. Use Quick Insights to discover correlations, outliers, trends, seasonality, change points in trends, and major factors right from the dashboard tiles you are most interested in.

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Tech Tip Thursday: sharing your data

Support
April 28, 2016 by Jessica Cook

In this week’s Tech Tip Thursday, our own Guy in a Cube reviews the various ways you can share your Power BI content.

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Dashboard Makeover: learn how to make your data shine

Announcements
April 28, 2016 by Jessica Cook

We want your dashboards and reports to instantly impress its audience, so the Microsoft Power BI team is offering the chance for a Dashboard and Report Makeover!

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Power BI Desktop April update feature summary

Announcements
April 28, 2016 by Filip Karadzic

Another month, another set of improvements for Power BI Desktop. Learn more about the updates we added on this monthly release including new connectors, additional table styling options, trend lines, data model synonyms and much more!

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Get natural language narratives in Power BI Reports

Announcements
April 26, 2016 by Patrick Baumgartner

Today we are thrilled to share a collaboration with Narrative Science and a new custom visual: Narratives for Power BI, which automatically communicates insights from all connected Power BI data sources — in natural language.

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Your data. Your visualizations. Your way – with Power BI

Developers
April 22, 2016 by Jono Luk

With the announcement of the Microsoft Power BI Embedded service, we now have another exciting Power BI solution to help you build Business Intelligence solutions with the best and most impactful data visualizations to enable your users to do more with data. In this article covers when to use each Power BI offer.

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Tech Tip Thursday: getting started with Power BI as a DBA

Support
April 21, 2016 by Jessica Cook

Microsoft’s own Guy in a Cube has been providing tips and tricks for Power BI and Business Intelligence on his YouTube channel since 2014. Every Thursday we highlight a different helpful video from…

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Data for kids, or how Walter and Vernon met with LEGO

Announcements
April 20, 2016 by Jessica Cook

Most of us work with data and business intelligence as part of our day-to-day profession, but here at Microsoft the pursuit of insight can also become a memorable family project.

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Power BI Added to Microsoft Trust Center

Announcements
April 19, 2016 by Amanda Cofsky

Today, we are excited to announce that Power BI is joining the Microsoft Trust Center. With the Microsoft Trust Center, customers can view a single page documenting Power BI’s compliance with ISO 27001, ISO 27018, EU Model Clauses, HIPAA BAA, and UK G-Cloud.

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Power BI Service April Update: ExpressRoute for Power BI

Announcements
April 14, 2016 by Amanda Cofsky

We are very pleased to announce that Power BI has integrated with Azure ExpressRoute. This means that companies using Power BI will be able to use ExpressRoute to establish a private, managed connection to Power BI. Additionally, we already have an update to the RLS preview we announced in our last blog post, and a small update to video tiles on the dashboard.

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