This month introduces another raft of improvements, the majority of which revolve around Copilot.

As part of Microsoft’s ongoing efforts to enhance the performance and security of Power BI, the company has announced the deprecation of the 32-bit build of Power BI Desktop.

The May 2025 update introduces a range of exciting advancements to Power BI, including a standalone Copilot feature allowing users to “Ask Anything!” in Preview.

This month introduces several new features across platforms, including value tokens, that infernal Dark Mode and the ability to create Tables with Copilot in Excel.

This month’s updates saw mobile optimised report layouts, the best way to view data in the general availability of Power BI mobile apps, editing your semantic models with TMDL (Preview) and improved layouts for live editing semantic models.

This month witnesses a host of new features and improvements designed to enhance your data analysis and visualisation experience.

This month’s updates see Python in Excel now Generally Available to eligible Enterprise and Business users in Excel for the web and in Preview for Family and Personal users. The TRIMRANGE function and other accompanying trim references are now available to all Windows users and iOS Insiders can now open shared files on iPhone and iPad without a Microsoft account.

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Copilot in Excel with Python is a tool that leverages the capabilities of artificial intelligence (AI) to get deeper insights from your data and take advantage of Python in Excel without being a Python or Excel expert. It’s now available on Windows platforms for all enterprise and consumer users.

Microsoft has announced that the 32-bit version of Power BI Desktop will no longer be supported after 30 June 2025.