You open a shared Excel workbook that your team has been editing for weeks. You have no idea what changed, who changed it, or whether some of those changes were made by a colleague or by Copilot. August 2026 gives Copilot the ability to answer all three questions in plain English, take you back to any previous state, and design your charts while it is at it.
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You open a Power BI report and ask Copilot to summarise it. It gives you a tidy overview. What it does not tell you is that half the visuals are hidden behind bookmarks, and Copilot never read them. That changes this month. So do eleven other updates worth knowing about.
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Everyone is telling Excel users to stop learning formulas and let AI write them instead. That advice works until the AI generates a VLOOKUP when you needed an INDEX MATCH, uses an absolute reference where you needed a relative one, or builds a formula that technically works but breaks the moment someone adds a row. The people who catch those errors are the ones who know Excel. The ones who do not are the ones who stopped learning it.
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You are reviewing a shared Excel workbook. A colleague made a dozen changes overnight. Some were manual edits. Some were generated by Copilot on their behalf. Scrolling through the file, there is no way to tell which is which.
That changes with one of the three Copilot updates Microsoft released for Excel this month. Here is what each update does.
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You open a Power BI report and ask Copilot to summarise it. It reads every visual and gives you a concise breakdown of trends, highlights, and notable changes across the entire report. One click. No prompt engineering. No manual interpretation.
That is one of several updates
Microsoft released this month that remove steps professionals have been doing manually for years.
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You open Excel on the web, need to find that report from three days ago, and spend the next four minutes scrolling the homepage trying to locate it. Then you ask Copilot for help and realise it has no idea about the email thread or meeting notes that explain the data. You end up doing it manually anyway.
Three of this month’s updates address exactly this. One changes the AI model you can use entirely.
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When Power BI releases a new update, it is easy to skim the feature list and move on. Most updates sound incremental at first glance. But occasionally, a release quietly improves how people explore data, maintain reports, and explain insights in real work. The January 2026 update falls into that category.
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2025 was not about adding more Power BI features. It was about fixing everyday friction. Many updates focused on problems users quietly dealt with for years, such as layout issues, fragile models, and dashboards that looked fine in theory but failed in real usage. This blog highlights the updates that actually changed how reports are built and maintained.
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The web browser has always been our front door to the internet. For years, they were simple tools to access websites. But in 2025, browsers are no longer just windows. They are turning into assistants. With AI built directly inside, browsers now summarize pages, answer questions, and even perform tasks for you.
The competition is heating up, and several companies are racing to become the go-to AI browser. Here’s a clear look at the main contenders, what each offers, and how you can decide which one suits your needs.
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Power BI has rolled out plenty of updates in 2025, but only a few truly stand out in everyday use. The best features are the ones that cut extra steps, make insights easier to share, and simplify reporting. Here is a focused list of updates that are worth paying attention to this year.
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