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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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7 new updates in Power Query

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September 3, 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 Download the Power Query Update Support for loading Binary-typed columns (such as images) to the Data Model…

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Best practices for building hybrid business intelligence environments

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August 26, 2014 by Miguel Martinez

Last week, authors Joseph D’Antoni and Stacia Misner released a new white paper that talks in detail about the use of Power BI in a hybrid environment taking advantage of the Data Management Gateway. In their words from the white paper summary: “Many…

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Visualizing the Primetime Emmy History

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August 25, 2014 by Miguel Martinez

The 66th Primetime Emmy Awards ceremony will be held tonight at the Nokia Theatre in Downtown Los Angeles. Like every other TV fan around the world, I’ll be watching. That is why I decided to honor the men and women that create these amazing shows for…

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Saudi Airlines visualizes data with Power BI to better manage its global operations

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August 20, 2014 by Miguel Martinez

Last week Microsoft News published an amazing story about one of our most interesting customers. Saudi Airlines , among the largest airlines in the Middle East, has implemented a business intelligence (BI) solution that includes Power BI for Office…

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Scheduled Data Refresh Update: New Data Sources

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August 19, 2014 by The Power BI Team

Update : The Data Refresh experience on Power BI has changed. For more details read this article and try the new Power BI today . In this Post Download the Data Management Gateway Extended data source support Step-by-step Power Query connection…

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Power BI is changing the way health services are provided

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August 14, 2014 by The Power BI Team

This blog post was authored by Tom Lawry, Director Worldwide Health, Microsoft With healthcare representing one of the fastest growing business segments for Business Intelligence, Power BI is finding its way in to healthcare organizations worldwide…

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Data Visualization for the 2014 World Cup results using Excel and Power BI

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August 13, 2014 by The Power BI Team

This blog post was authored by Marc Reguera, Finance Director, Microsoft After the success and interested generated by my first post, Visualizing the World Cup history with Excel and Power BI , I decided to update the model with data from the 2014…

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Power BI July Roundup

Announcements
August 12, 2014 by Miguel Martinez

“Microsoft received high client feedback scores for its agile, business user self-service and advanced data visualization functionality. Clients also gave Microsoft BI a high score for its product vision”. This quote from the Forrester Wave…

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Power BI Admin: No Power BI for Office 365 License

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August 12, 2014 by Adam Saxton

There are two issues I’ve seen crop up with Power BI Admin Center. I talked about one of them a while ago regarding the “ You are not authorized ” error. I’ll talk about the other here. This is more just some confusion about how it works and how it is…

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Earth’s Rising Tempers: Unlocking Volcanoes Insights with Power BI

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August 6, 2014 by Miguel Martinez

Volcanoes are one of the most destructive forces of nature and always get a fair amount of attention from the general public and the scientific community. Volcanic activity generates thousands of data points. Remy Tom, one of our semi-finalist of the…

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