Blogs from Wise Owl on Updates in Power BI Desktop

A summary of the changes for the September 2017 update to Power BI Desktop

Posted by Andy Brown on 12 September 2017

The September 2017 Power BI Desktop update introduces ribbon charts, a feature to explain the increase or decrease for any chart point and a drill-through feature allowing you to temporarily switch to a summary page.

Changes made in August 2017 to Power BI Desktop

Posted by Andy Brown on 14 August 2017

A quiet month, after the frenetic activity of the July update, sees lots of small changes to matrices, tables and charts, but no single big update.

The July 2017 Power BI Desktop updates, including new table and matrix visuals

Posted by Andy Brown on 13 July 2017

This is a bigger update than usual, with the highlight undoubtedly being the official roll-out of the much-trailed new table and matrix visuals.

The most important changes included in the June 2017 Power BI Desktop update

Posted by Andy Brown on 26 June 2017

This update includes lots of nice features, such as line markers and the ability to change font typefaces, as well as many more changes!

The most important changes made for the May 2017 Power BI Desktop update

Posted by Andy Brown on 17 May 2017

The May 2017 Power BI Update brings in a couple of nice new query transforms and some new chart features, but the big changes are still in preview mode.

A list of the updates made in the April 2017 update to Power BI Desktop

Posted by Andy Brown on 28 April 2017

This update includes some nice new features - for example, creating columns by example and changing chart axis titles. Read this blog for a full list!

The main new features in the March 2017 update of Power BI Desktop

Posted by Andy Brown on 24 March 2017

This is a small update, although the new matrix tool which is currently in preview mode will be a big change.

Updates made in February 2017 to Power BI Desktop.

Posted by Andy Brown on 16 February 2017

A summary of the most important changes for Power BI Desktop users in the February 2017 update.

Power BI Desktop - January 2017 update

Posted by Andy Brown on 08 February 2017

A summary of the (small) changes in Microsoft's January 2017 Power BI Desktop update.

A summary of the Power BI Desktop Updates going back to November 2016

Posted by Andy Brown on 19 December 2016

This blog differs from the Microsoft update summary in two ways: it omits preview and obscure changes, but goes into more detail (and gives practical examples) on mainstream updates.

The main new features for BI workers in the November 2016 Power BI update

Posted by Andy Brown on 19 December 2016

A summary of the new features in the November 2016 Power BI Update, omitting things which are still only in preview.