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This week's Microsoft Weekly brings you a fresh recap of new preview builds, a Windows 11 23H2 review, deprecated features and dying apps, surprise upgrades for File Explorer in Windows 10, and more.

Microsoft has posted a list of updates released for the Excel spreadsheet app. They include new Power BI Connected Tables, along with improvements in the Save As/Discard dialog and more.

Accessing and managing Power BI datasets is finally available for the mobile app as well, alongside some nifty features that make the experience of datasets as a whole better as well.

The latest enhancements for the platform aims to provide users ways to continue their work across multiple services, while having minimal disruptions in between the process of doing so.

The latest capability has been noted to be a direct result of user feedback upon the arrival of Power BI integration with PowerPoint. The feature is being incrementally rolled out at the moment.

At the Microsoft Build 2023 event today, Microsoft has unveiled its new unified analytics platform dubbed "Microsoft Fabric". As expected, Fabric will be a Software as a Service (SaaS) product.

The Power BI division of Microsoft will hold its own digital event starting at noon Eastern time on May 24 and May 25 during Build 2023, with special pre-shows before each day's events.

The feature greatly simplifies the process of Power BI usage in Jupyter Notebooks, allowing users to leverage creation of reports directly, without having to switch between different tools.

Alongside a preview for a couple of updated features in various modules, there are a bunch of other new capabilities that have been added to Microsoft's data analytics platform as well.

The TMDL allows extracted models to be showcased in a human-readable format with a YAML-like syntax, along with other useful features that make it better than traditional files in TMSL.

As announced back in January, Microsoft is increasing the cost of its Microsoft Cloud services by up to 15% in certain regions of Europe. This move will impact organizations, not consumers.

Microsoft has announced that support for Power BI Desktop in Windows 8.1 will be ending next year, with the platform being available for only Windows 10 and newer versions after that.

The latest updates to the platform are reporting- and visualizations-centric, though TypeScript support for Embedded in the playground developer sandbox, among many other changes feature as well.

Microsoft has announced that it will begin a phased rollout of the EU Data Boundary initiative to its customers in the EU that will allow them to process and store parts of their data within the EU.

November brings a plethora of features for various modules, along with a shift in terms of app color accent, and more information for the service's upcoming infrastructure update to WebView2.

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The latest update makes it possible for users without Power BI Desktop to open reports directly in some other services, while improvements to Power Apps and Power Pages have been showcased as well.

With the latest release, yet another popular JavaScript framework gets a component for Power BI. This allows Power BI content to be embedded in Vue-based web applications with ease.

Microsoft has announced Power Pages, a low-code platform to build websites. It has also revealed a bunch of capabilities coming to Power BI, Power Automate, Power Virtual Agents, and Power Apps.

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The update is specifically related to the browsing of visuals, improving the user experience to make it easier and more efficient to filter, sort, and search for visuals for AppSource in Power BI.

At Inspire 2021, Microsoft has announced the Cloud for Sustainability initiative that will help organizations to measure and track their carbon emissions and also take act upon intelligent insights.

The activity feed in Microsoft's Teams service now supports Power BI report sharing and other capabilities directly from within the application, bypassing the need to open emails outside the service.

The report building tool for Microsoft's data analytics service has received a new update. The latest release brings a new data tab, a more streamlined DAX usage experience, and other changes.

In the last seven days we had the Build conference, a reveal of the Xbox and Bethesda E3 event date, and some needed improvements to shared calendars on Windows. Be sure to catch up via our overview.

The premium version of Microsoft's data analytics platform is receiving real-time analytics and big data improvements, while Power BI Embedded now offers integration with Jupyter Notebooks.

The Spanish football association will not only be working with Microsoft to make the digital sports experience better, but also to develop tech solutions for the media and entertainment industry.

Microsoft announced that it is bringing support for Power BI connected PivotTables to Excel on the web. The feature on the desktop will also receive new features and performance improvements.

The April update for the Power BI On-premises data gateway brings enhanced PowerShell scripts, alongside general availability for single sign-on (SSO) for refresh, among other features.

The preview feature has now hit general availability, bringing the ability to protect sensitive information from report viewers. This is part of Power BI's recent push towards enhanced security.

With previous phases having completed, general availability for the release wave 1 for Microsoft Dynamics 365 and the Power Platform is now underway, and is set to continue for the next six months.

In addition to direct access sharing in Power BI, reports will be able to be shared through links as well. The changes in this regard are set to be introduced at the end of this month.

Along with the rumored Power Fx launch now being confirmed, Microsoft has also revealed further features for its Power Platform services, including Power BI and Power Virtual Agents.

The Power BI On-premises data gateway update for this month introduces a name change for the Azure Cosmos DB Connector, a .NET framework update, in addition to other changes as well.

Microsoft is partnering with US-based investment firm MSCI to offer Investment Solutions as a Service. Throughout 2021, four new services will launch built on top of Azure and Power BI.

The first major release wave for this year focuses on features and capabilities that are set to be released from April through September, with early access poised to begin next month.

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