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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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Share your Excel data with Power BI publisher for Excel Preview

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January 15, 2016 by The Power BI Team

Introducing Power BI publisher for Excel: s haring key Excel insights just got easier. Save snapshots of important PivotTables, Charts, cell ranges, and more from across all of your spreadsheets to a single location quickly. Share your Excel…

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Visual Awesomeness Unlocked – Percentile Chart

Announcements
January 14, 2016 by The Power BI Team

By Amir Netz, Technical Fellow and Mey Meenakshisundaram, Product Manager Percentile charts are used in all walks of life. If you are a parent, you might have come across percentile in your kid’s growth chart. If you are a student, you might…

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Nate Silver to headline Microsoft Data Insights Summit

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January 11, 2016 by The Power BI Team

Join us for the inaugural Microsoft Data Insights Summit , on March 22-23 in Bellevue, Washington, and discover new ways to bring your data to life. This will be the first Microsoft Power BI and Microsoft Excel user conference designed especially for…

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Visual Awesomeness Unlocked – Horizontal Funnel

Announcements
January 8, 2016 by The Power BI Team

By Amir Netz, Technical Fellow and Mey Meenakshisundaram, Product Manager Happy New Year! We are happy to welcome you to this new year with a colorful new entrant to the power bi custom visuals family – the ‘Horizontal Funnel’. We are…

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Create your Best Report with Power BI and Win

Announcements
January 7, 2016 by The Power BI Team

Creating a great report is both an art and a science. There’s the data, of course — the raw numbers and charts and feeds that fuel your work. But it’s the nuanced art of finding the right way to deliver the right insights that truly lets your data reach…

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Analyze your Lithium community data in Power BI

Announcements
January 6, 2016 by Theresa Palmer

Lithium builds trusted relationships between the world’s best brands and their customers, helping people get answers and share their experiences. The Lithium content pack for Power BI allows you to gain insight into key measures of community performance…

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Power BI Service Update

Announcements
January 6, 2016 by The Power BI Team

Welcome to 2016! Over the holidays, we on the Power BI team kept on releasing new and exciting features . Today, we want to share all the great things that we released while we took a little holiday break from blogging. Many of these features were top…

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Announcing the Power BI app for Windows 10 Mobile

Announcements
December 31, 2015 by The Power BI Team

We are excited to introduce the Power BI app for Windows 10 Mobile. This new app is another step towards Power BI‘s goal to bring your data anywhere, anytime, everywhere . Similar to the Power BI apps for iOS and Android, the Windows 10 app…

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Power BI mobile apps update – December 2015

Announcements
December 30, 2015 by The Power BI Team

You asked, and we listened: the December 2015 updates for Power BI mobile apps includes a number of features and quality fixes requested by you, our users. All of these improvements are now available in your app marketplace! Let’s take a look at…

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SQL 16 SSRS on Power BI app for iOS

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December 30, 2015 by The Power BI Team

We are happy to announce a preview of the Power BI app for iOS with support for SQL Server 2016 CTP 3.2. With this update you can seamlessly bring your on-premises data to your mobile device and stay on top of your business from anywhere with out of the…

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