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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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“Setting up…” on Power BI Icon for O365 Grid after signing up (Public Preview)

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February 5, 2015 by Adam Saxton

NOTE: This is preview material and is subject to change. Information listed here is good as of 2/5/2015. If you go to https://www.powerbi.com and sign up, you will get to the Public Preview. If from there you go to https://portal.office.com you may see…

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The Power BI iPhone app introduces data-driven alerts and annotations

Announcements
February 4, 2015 by Miguel Martinez

Last week, Microsoft released the Power BI app for iPhone, joining its sibling iPad app. Both apps are part of the new Power BI preview features, released on December 18 th , and are just the first wave of the new Power BI mobile offering, to be followed…

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BA Marathon: Free Day of Online Analytics Learning Spotlights Power BI, Excel

Announcements
January 30, 2015 by The Power BI Team

Guest blog post by : PASS VP of Marketing Denise McInerney – a Data Architect at Intuit – began her career as a SQL Server DBA in 1998 and now applies her deep understanding of data to enable analytic solutions to business problems. She is…

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Data and Seahawks: Road to Superbowl XLIX

Announcements
January 30, 2015 by Miguel Martinez

The Superbowl is just around the corner and as you can imagine we are getting very excited here in the Seattle area. A good way for us to get some of the Superbowl anxiety out of our systems is to take our data visualization and analytics tools and use…

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[Webinar] Getting Started with Power BI

Announcements
January 29, 2015 by Miguel Martinez

Update: You can watch this webinar on-demand if you register now . How is your marketing campaign performing? Which of your sales people need extra support? When should you perform preventive maintenance on your factory equipment? Learn how to answer…

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1,000,000 Power BI Licenses

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January 29, 2015 by Adam Saxton

This question has come up a few times regarding why you would be seeing 1,000,000 licenses for Power BI in your O365 Tenant. To show you what this looks like we can go to the O365 Admin portal, go to Billing and then Licenses . From a subscription standpoint…

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A first look at Power BI on the Office Mechanics show

Announcements
January 28, 2015 by Miguel Martinez

Yesterday we announced exciting news for Power BI. Anyone with a US business email account can try the preview of the new Power BI today for free. The preview introduces a number of new Power BI including dashboards, new visualizations, support for popular…

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Power BI Announcement

Announcements
January 27, 2015 by The Power BI Team

This morning, James Phillips, General Manager for Data Experiences announced important changes to the Power BI service at the Microsoft Official Blog . These exciting news include a free Power BI offering, price reductions and exciting new features…

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Error when trying to go to the Dashboard site (Public Preview)

Support
January 14, 2015 by Adam Saxton

We have received a few calls regarding the Power BI Public Preview. In some cases the customer wasn’t able to get the site loaded up when going through http://www.powerbi.com/dashboards . They would receive and error similar to the following. Sorry, that…

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6 New Updates in Power Query

Announcements
January 13, 2015 by Miguel Llopis

Try what’s coming next for Power BI! We hope all of you are enjoying 2015 so far! The Power Query team has been busy working on the latest Power Query update, which includes a new connector (or many new connectors, in this case!) and a bunch of other…

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