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Power BI April 2026 Feature Summary

April 22, 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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Join the Power BI team at Microsoft Build

Microsoft Build is returning to Seattle in May. Build is the ultimate annual Microsoft developer event, where the most innovative minds in tech meet under one roof to get inspired, create tomorrow, and code the future.

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Drill Down & Up in Power BI Mobile apps

Announcements
April 11, 2018 by The Power BI Team

You asked, and we built it! Now in Power BI Mobile app you can continue to analyze your data and gain even more insights by using drill down and drill up in your report’s visuals.

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Power BI Service and Mobile March Feature Summary

March turned out to be another exciting and busy month for Power BI. We rolled out some highly anticipated features in the service and continued to make progress with many more that are set to…

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Editing Q&A linguistic schemas

In the April update of Power BI Desktop we added the ability to import and export the linguistic schema for your model. Learn how to manually edit the schema to add phrasings so Q&A can answer more questions about your data.

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Week 4/11 Webinars: Load Testing Power BI Applications with Visual Studio Load Test and Getting Started with Model Driven Apps in PowerApps

Announcements
April 6, 2018 by Charles Sterling

Two great Webinars for the week of 4/11: Load Testing Power BI Applications with Visual Studio Load Test and Getting Started with CDS for Apps based Model Driven Apps

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Power BI is hiring!

Announcements
April 6, 2018 by Lukasz Pawlowski

The Power BI team at Microsoft is hiring. We’re looking for amazing people to join our world class team. Read this blog to learn more about our team and see the list of open jobs.

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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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Week of 4/2 two great webinars: Practical DAX for Power BI and Power BI Embedding -The April 2018 Update

Announcements
April 3, 2018 by Charles Sterling

This, 4/2/2018 brings you two free great Power BI Webinars: Practical DAX for Power BI with Phil Seamark and Developing with Power BI Embedding – The April 2018 Update by Ted Pattison!

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Power BI Developer community March update

This blog post covers the latest updates for Power BI Developers community- Power BI Embedded and Custom Visuals.

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On-premises data gateway March update is now available

Announcements
March 29, 2018 by Youssef Shoukry

We are excited to announce that we have just released the March update for the On-premises data gateway. Here are some of the things that we would like to highlight with this month’s release: The…

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