Horary! The Power BI desktop for October finally arrived and it is packed with tons of updates. I’m super excited about this month’s release. We rallied the troops and have a ton of MVPs talking about the latest release of Power BI desktop
Click the link to the official Microsoft blog post.
Sep 24, 2026
Kurt Buhler tells Tommy Puglia and Mike Carlo that a full Power BI report from an agent went from a bad idea to a half-hour build in the span of a week. The catch, in his telling, is the report format, the context you bring, and a requirements process that now has to scale past a single page.
Sep 22, 2026
Tommy Puglia, Mike Carlo, and Kurt Buhler spend this episode on what is left of the Power BI identity once Microsoft Fabric and agents are part of the job. The skill that still decides the work is judgment: listening to the business, and staying critical of what an agent hands back.
Sep 17, 2026
Power Query is moving a set of cloud connectors from ODBC to ADBC, and legacy Power BI Q&A now stays through February 2027. Kurt Buhler joins Tommy Puglia and Mike Carlo to sort out what data literacy and AI literacy require once Microsoft Fabric and agents make it easy to build faster than a team can review.