Download and Install Power BI Desktop

In the previous article, i already shown what is exactly Power BI and what are the advantages of using power bi and why you should choose power BI. In this articles, let us see how to install power bi desktop software on your laptop machine. Now, there are many methods to download the power bi desktop software.

Method 1

One of easiest method is which I’ll be showing you here is you  just enter the URL Download Power BI Desktop. You can use this URL to download the power bi software. When you open the above link you can find download free option.

Now once you click on that it will ask you to open Microsoft Store.

when you click on open Microsoft Store and here you can see the Power BI Desktop Application will be open here. We kow that Power bi desktop is a completely free software. You don’t have to pay anything for that.

In my system i already installed Power BI desktop, thats why install button is not showing here. if When you click on install button and it will automatically install on your laptop PC here. Now the best part is if you try by this method every month, whatever updates are there. It will automatically update here. because microsoft launch new updates every month for power bi. So this is one easy method of downloading and installing. So, here comes the power here. 

Here, if you see, the launch option, since you  already have power bi installed on your machine. However, if you are doing it for the first time, you will get here as installed, you will just click on install. It will take few minutes to install download and install. You can click on this launch button here. That’s one method.

Method 2

Second method is you can see the other option. See, download and language options. If you are from some other country and you want in different language apart from English, you can just click on this, see, download or language options.

So once I click on that, it open a new app and there you can see I can change the language. Okay you see I can change the language from here. I can choose whichever language I want and I can just click on download button here.

This will be a customizable download option. Before you download, you can see what are the system requirements for this particular software, you can see the installation instruction if something required and then you can click on download and installation. Click next button again adn again, go for installation. Once it is done, you can just search for power bi in the search bar, the software here will be restore, This will open the power bi software.

How to upgrade Power BI Desktop

Now, many of you might have the older user interface of power, So how do you upgrade the newer use interface? Power, BI updates, every month, not every year , every month new features are coming. How do we activate those features? When you compare your current power bi desktop software with current version, you can see for me the user interface is something different, you might have some different option here.

For upgrading, 

You can go to that file > Option and settings then click on options button here.

you can see, there is a preview features. Some option will find here as preview features, this one, this is the most important part preview features here. Whatever new features are been launched by Microsoft company.

Since Power BI new features are coming every month you have to select this checkbox and click on, okay? After you click on okay, you have to restart your our power bi software then only this new features will be installed. 

Same way if you are in the transform data, I’ll just click on transform data. This will open a power query editor, okay?

Now here also, same thing in power query, click file> options and settings > select options here. Also, you can see the same options will be visible for upgrading new features that is previous features here.

Also, you can add some new features once you select all, the checkboxes whichever are required. Not all suppose the Spanish language , if I don’t require the Spanish language so I can be select that and I can click on, okay, and click apply. So then it will ask you to close software and reopen that. So all the features will be installed. But I hope you understood how to download install and upgrade the new features of power bi here. 

I hope this article will be very helpfull for beginners, here i explained everything about power bi download installation and upgrade. As we already discussed , power bi new featues are relaeased every month, so once you installed the software, upgrade featuers every month.