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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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UN’s Millennium Development Goals Data Visualizations

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November 19, 2014 by Miguel Martinez

“The MDGs have been the greatest anti-poverty push in history. New partnerships have been established. New actors have engaged. And now we must finish the job…”. These are the words of Ban Ki-Moon, United Nations Secretary General about the UN’s Millennium…

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From Data to Insight and Impact: The BI Revolution

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November 14, 2014 by Miguel Martinez

Excel is part of our everyday lives. It doesn’t matter if you’re a finance, marketing or operations professional. But Excel is not what it used to be 10, 5 or even 3 years ago. Our engineering team has been very busy bringing amazing updates to Excel…

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Excel Power Map November Update

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November 13, 2014 by Miguel Martinez

Today we announced the Power Map November update , that adds a new feature requested by many Power Map users: the ability to play any tour directly from any scene . Before this update, if you wanted to check how a specific scene looked, you would have…

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Silverlight may be blocked by recent IE Update affected Power View

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November 12, 2014 by Adam Saxton

Internet Explorer has released an update in November’s patches that will block old versions of Silverlight. November 2014 updates for Internet Explorer http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2014/11/11/november-2014-updates-for-internet-explorer.aspx You…

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Machine Learning for Analysts: The Basics

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November 11, 2014 by The Power BI Team

Machine learning is a hot trend in the tech and business press – you’ve probably heard about it, and you may be starting to explore it, or perhaps are already using it. OR you might have zero idea what to do with it, in which case, read on for some basics…

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Getting Started with Power Pivot – Part II

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October 30, 2014 by Kasper de Jonge

Welcome back to our Getting Started with Excel and Power BI Series . In Part I of Getting Started with Power Pivot we created our first Excel Data Model. Today we will create additional relationships and start using DAX to add business logic to our…

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Getting Started with Power Query – Part II

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October 29, 2014 by Miguel Martinez

Welcome back to our Getting Started with Excel and Power BI series . Today we will continue with our first Excel feature, Power Query, which allows you to discover, shape and transform your data before importing it into Excel or your Power Pivot data…

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6 New Updates in Power Query

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October 28, 2014 by Miguel Llopis

Take Power Query to the next level: share your queries and create a corporate data catalog. Try Power BI for Free today! In this Post October is getting close to an end, but before we all put on our costumes and eat lots of candy for Halloween,…

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Getting Started with Power Pivot – Part I

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October 22, 2014 by Kasper de Jonge

Welcome back to our Getting Started with Excel and Power BI Series . In our previous blog posts we explored how to bring data into Excel through Power Query ( Part I and Part II ). In this blog post we will take that data and prepare it for analyzing…

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Excel Power Map October Update

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October 21, 2014 by Miguel Martinez

Last month we announced two exciting new features for Power Map , including support for Filtering, and the ability to plot data on top of Custom Maps . This month we’ve focused on providing quality improvements. We’ve made more fixes…

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