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Power BI April 2026 Feature Summary

22 April, 2026 by Katie Murray

Welcome to the April Power BI update! Power BI’s April 2026 update is here, bringing continued improvements across Copilot and AI, reporting, visuals, and modeling. This release includes more flexibility when working with layouts and visuals, expanded Copilot experiences—especially on mobile—and several preview features that continue to enhance performance and authoring workflows. You’ll also find …

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Describing the forecasting models in Power View

Announcements
8 May, 2014 by The Power BI Team

Power View performs advanced statistical analysis of the data in your line charts to generate forecasts that incorporate trends and seasonal factors. If you want to learn more about these methods and how to customize your forecasts to get the best results…

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New in Power View HTML5 and the Power BI app

Announcements
7 May, 2014 by The Power BI Team

The Power View team is happy to announce the following updates to HTML5 and the Power BI app Power View in HTML5 and the Power BI app now have these features: Map drill-down works. Line charts have tooltips. Bar and column charts can show…

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New updates for Power Query

Announcements
6 May, 2014 by The Power BI Team

The Power Query team has been busy adding a number of exciting new features to Power Query. You can download the update from this page . New features for Power Query include the following, please read the rest of this blog post for specific details…

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Scheduled Data Refresh for Power Query

Announcements
2 May, 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 . We are excited to bring you scheduled refresh for workbooks containing Power Query connections to SQL and Oracle databases…

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Jabil takes an evolutionary leap in data management with self-service BI

Announcements
30 April, 2014 by The Power BI Team

Jabil, based in St. Petersburg, Florida, is one of the world’s leading global manufacturing solutions partners. Its business began with circuit boards for the automotive industry, and it now comprises more than 90 factories providing system design…

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Why is my background not showing in the Power BI Windows App?

Support
30 April, 2014 by Adam Saxton

There was a customer comment regarding the fact that the background of their Power View report wasn’t showing up when viewing the report in the Power BI App from the Windows Store. NOTE: This information is true as of April 2014. The reason for this is…

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OData Feed through Excel or Power Pivot vs. Power Query

Support
30 April, 2014 by Adam Saxton

We had a customer that was trying to pull data into Excel by way of an OData feed. This actually related to a Project Server hosted in a SharePoint 2013 On Premise deployment. Within Excel, we have multiple ways to import data. This could be through the…

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Power Map April update for Office 365 now available and Preview expiration removed in Office 2013

Announcements
18 April, 2014 by The Power BI Team

The Power Map team is excited and proud to bring you the April update of Microsoft Power Map for Excel. This update brings new functionality to Power Map and improves some existing features. Power Map users with an active Office 365 subscription will…

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Thumbnail Images within Power BI Sites

Support
18 April, 2014 by Adam Saxton

We’ve had some questions regarding the thumbnail images within the Power BI Sites about what the different images mean. I wanted to go through these to provide some understanding, along with how you can control some of the behavior. Not Enabled Workbooks…

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UK Hospital Sees Cloud-Based BI Service as a Tool to Boost Clinical Outcomes and Efficiency

Announcements
16 April, 2014 by The Power BI Team

Professor Philip Dean is Head of the Department of Pharmacy and Quality Control Laboratory Services at the North Tees and Hartlepool National Health Services Trust in the United Kingdom, which provides hospital-based and community-based healthcare services…

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