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Announcing Microsoft Fabric Community Conference Europe

In March we hosted over 4,200 data professionals in Las Vegas for the first-ever Microsoft Fabric Community Conference. When we set out to host this event, we knew there was a hunger in the community, but we had no idea the level of interest, and need, for connection amongst our Fabric users. It was an amazing experience to connect with our community and see the opportunities that Fabric unlocks for your businesses.

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Gartner Analytics and BI Bake-off 2023: Analysis of Flooding and Flood Mitigation

Each year, as part of the Gartner Data and Analytics Summit, Gartner invites vendors from the Magic Quadrant for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms to show how their product can help solve real-world problems and find insights in real-world data. We wanted to share a video that highlights the features we demoed at the Gartner event.

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Power BI March 2023 Feature Summary

After almost 10 years, support for Windows 8.1 has ended on January 10, 2023. In line with this, we will stop support for Power BI Desktop on Windows 8.1 on January 31, 2024. After that, Power BI Desktop will only be supported on Windows 10 and newer. The January 2024 release of Power BI Desktop for Report Server will be the last release to support Windows 8.1, and this version will only receive security updates until January 2025 per the Modern Lifecycle Policy.

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On-object | Public Preview (Opt-in)

Introducing On-object! The new way to build and format your visuals. We’ve heard time and again from our user research studies PBI desktop is hard to use. We’ve also seen countless new users struggle to navigate our UI to perform simple actions such as completely missing the fields pane all the way on the right side of the screen, unable to add data to the correct field wells, fishing around the format pane to rename, change colors, or format text styles of their visual. These same users instinctively right-click on areas of the visual expecting a menu to help. Aligning to our new “Office-like” strategy we bring you, on object. A new way to build and format visuals directly on the visual.

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