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Power BI 2025 holiday recap: A decade of innovation and impact

2025 was a monumental year for Microsoft Power BI, marked by its 10-year anniversary and a series of community celebrations, global contests, and product advancements that delivered new capabilities empowering users to turn data into action faster than ever. Below we recap some of the year’s biggest highlights—from milestone events to feature breakthroughs—that made 2025 …

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Power BI Desktop April Feature Summary

This month, on top of our normal of visual & data connector improvements, we have two exciting features that lets report consumers interact with reports in a new way. The Q&A Explorer enables report consumers to ask their own questions about the data, and buttons let you add interactive elements on your reports.

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Microsoft Power BI achieves HITRUST CSF certification

In the healthcare industry, the HITRUST Common Security Framework was developed to help address the multitude of security, privacy and regulatory challenges facing organizations today. Developed by IT and healthcare professionals, the CSF provides a highly prescriptive framework for managing a diverse set of federal and state regulations, standards, and frameworks. Today, Microsoft is pleased to announce that Power BI has been certified under the HITRUST CSF 8.1 certification criteria.

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Power BI Report Server Update – March 2018

Today, we’re pleased to announce the release of a new version of Power BI Report Server that contains several new features customers have been anxiously waiting for, including bookmarking, syncing slicers, and quick measures. This release is supported for production workloads, so you should feel free to upgrade your production environment to take advantage of all of these new capabilities.

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