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After digging through the May Power BI update, this one feels more focused on usability and report experience improvements than major platform shifts, but there are a few features I think could actually impact day-to-day report development quite a bit.

A few things that stood out to me:

• Visual calculations + custom totals reaching GA feels important. Curious whether people are actually starting to use visual calculations in production yet, or if most teams are still sticking with traditional DAX patterns.
• Input slicer numeric support seems small at first, but honestly opens up a lot more practical use cases for parameter-style filtering and user-driven analysis.
• The new fixed/default column widths for matrix and table visuals might be one of the most underrated additions in a while. I know a lot of people have struggled with layout consistency in dashboards.
• Matrix Explore improvements also seem interesting, especially for self-service analytics scenarios where users want to drill into data without needing entirely separate report pages.
• The Copilot summarize shortcut feels like another signal Microsoft is continuing to push AI directly into everyday reporting workflows rather than treating it as a separate experience.
• The Azure Maps formatting pane updates are nice too, though I’m curious how many people here are heavily using Azure Maps vs other mapping visuals.

Overall this update feels more polished/productivity-oriented compared to some of the larger Fabric-focused releases recently.

Curious what others think:

• Which feature here is actually most useful in real-world reporting?
• Anyone actively using visual calculations in enterprise reports yet?
• Do you think Copilot integrations are becoming genuinely useful, or still mostly early-stage?