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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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Announcing Persistent Filters in the Power BI Service

The feature you have all been waiting for is finally here. Today, I’m thrilled to announce the general availability of persistent filters in the Power BI service. All Power BI reports will now…

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Power BI Desktop March Feature Summary

This month is a very exciting month for us! We are making several of our most popular connectors generally available, including SAP HANA. Bookmarking is also now generally available, which means you can start creating bookmarks from scratch in the Power BI Service. We are also previewing a powerful feature, report page tooltips, that lets you use visuals in your own custom designed tooltips.

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Share your Power BI content with anyone by email

I’m excited to announce the ability to share content with users using their personal email accounts, making it easier to share data with people outside of your organization. Previously, you could…

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BI Bake Off at Gartner Data and Analytics Summit 2018

Features
March 4, 2018 by Will Thompson

Today we presented at the BI Bake Off session at Gartner Data and Analytics Summit in Grapevine, Texas and we are happy to share the report with everyone in this post.

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On-premises data gateway February update is now available

Announcements
February 27, 2018 by Youssef Shoukry

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

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Power BI Developer community February update

This blog post covers the latest updates for Power BI Developers community. Don’t forget to check out the January blog post, if you haven’t done so already. Power BI Embedded Here is the list of…

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Gartner recognizes Microsoft as a leader in Analytics and BI platforms for 11 consecutive years

Announcements
February 27, 2018 by Arun Ulag

Today we’re thrilled to announce that for the 11th consecutive year, Microsoft has been positioned as a leader in Gartner’s 2018 Magic Quadrant for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms.* And for the third year, Microsoft is positioned furthest to the right for completeness of vision within the Leaders quadrant.

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Automatically install apps

Announcements
February 23, 2018 by Lukasz Pawlowski

I’m excited to announce the ability to automatically install apps for end users, making it easier to distribute the right apps to the right set of people. Apps deliver data that your end users need…

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2/21 Webinar: Be a Full Stack Power BI Jedi – A walkthrough of Power BI most advanced features through Star Wars data

Announcements
February 21, 2018 by Charles Sterling

Be a Full Stack Power BI Jedi – this week’s webinar walks through of Power BI most advanced features through Star Wars data with Power BI MVP, Gil Raviv.

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Sessions for Data & BI Summit now available

Announcements
February 20, 2018 by Miguel Martinez

The Data & BI Summit, held in Dublin, Ireland 24-26 April is quickly approaching and we are happy to announce that the schedule planner and sessions details are now available.

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