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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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Let Power BI tell you a Valentine’s Day Story

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February 14, 2014 by The Power BI Team

Happy Valentine’s Day everyone! As our Valentine’s Day gift to you, we offer this bouquet of Power BI visualizations, filled with the most carefully selected data and freshest insights related to this most romantic of holidays. These dashboards…

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Power BI for Finance

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February 13, 2014 by The Power BI Team

Finance professionals have relied on Excel for years to come up with reports and data analyses that deliver the answers they are looking for. That is why we believe that the new Power BI features in Excel and in Office 365 are so relevant for people in…

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Keeping Your Reports Up to Date with Scheduled Data Refresh

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February 12, 2014 by The Power BI Team

You can automatically keep your workbooks up to date using the scheduled refresh functionality in Power BI for Office 365 sites. This blog post provides an overview of how the feature works, and links to a few different related pages in the Office 365…

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Global Media Agency Expects Better Campaign Performance with Power BI: No Training Required

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February 11, 2014 by The Power BI Team

Superbowl commercials are viewed globally and cost millions of dollars, yet when do companies know if such investments pay off? Answering such questions about the effectiveness of TV ads and other promotions used to take weeks of effort for a team of…

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Announcing the General Availability of Power BI for Office 365

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February 10, 2014 by The Power BI Team

Today, Microsoft announced the general availability of Power BI for Office 365 , a cloud-based business intelligence service that gives people a powerful new way to work with data in the tools they use every day, Excel and Office 365. With Excel you can…

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Sharing and Discovering Queries Using Power Query and Power BI

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February 7, 2014 by The Power BI Team

In conjunction with Power BI for Office 365, Power Query offers a set of capabilities for sharing and discovering queries within your organization. In this blog post, we will look into the specific details for how this works. Sharing a query Let’s…

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Presenting the Power BI Demo Contest Semi-Finalist Winners!

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February 3, 2014 by The Power BI Team

After a nail-biting back half of January, we are pleased to announce that the community voting stage for the Power BI demo contest is over, and that we received over 65 amazing submissions! The videos we received kept us glued to our screens for hours…

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The Road to the Big Game with Power Map

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January 31, 2014 by The Power BI Team

Following up on our NFC Championship game post 2 weeks ago for the Seahawks, we decided to go a little broader this time and create these two “Road to the Big Game” Power Map tours to show how the Seattle Seahawks and the Denver Bronco’s made it to Super…

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Have You Voted for Your Favorite Power BI Demo?

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January 30, 2014 by The Power BI Team

Indulge in some harmless video-binging while being awed by the talent in this community of data buffs . The voting period for the Power BI Demo Contest ends soon. So get to it! Watch as many demos as you can, then cast your vote by 5 pm PT today, January…

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Super Bowl Search Trends with Power BI

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January 30, 2014 by The Power BI Team

One of our Power BI rockstars, Shish Shridhar ( blog and YouTube channel ), created some great data visualizations for search terms around the Super Bowl. Shish used different tools such as the Bing Ads Intelligence add-in to compare search trends…

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