Last month we announced two exciting new features for Power Map, including support for Filtering, and the ability to plot data on top of Custom Maps.
This month we’ve focused on providing quality improvements. We’ve made more fixes in Power Map than in any monthly release so far spanning filtering, custom maps, timeline, tour playback, accessibility, look and feel, 2D charts, and stability. Please continue to provide your feedback and report any errors by clicking the button in your own Power Map tour in Excel.
Power Map is part of several analytics and visualization features in Excel, more info at Power BI for Office 365. Power Map is available to all customers with an Office 365 subscription. If you have automatic updates enabled for your Office 365 subscription, you should receive this update soon. If you don’t have automatic updates enabled in Excel, go to File > Account > Update Options > Update Now.
Why there are no PowerMap updates for Excel 2013???? Not everybody is comfortable with cloud yet. Will it be always like that from now?
Re-post from MS Blog-- blogs.office.com/.../6-cool-ways-use-custom-maps
This is really a cool Update! Neat stuff!!
However, I am disappointed that such feature is not shared upon to Excel Professional 2013 users. Yes, I have read your previous posts about faster deployment via the cloud through Office 365 subscriptions rationale, but I fail to understand if that is the strategy of product deployment from MS, why wasn’t such differentiation clearly communicated to the users initially?
If this is the modus di operani of MS, I believe you are really doing a great disservice to your Excel Professional 2013 users.
Please tell us clearly your future inclinations in advance that your users could determine which/what product that they should be purchasing.
Yours,
Disappointed MS User
It would be great if you could start posting change logs whenever an update is released, detailing the fixes/improvements implemented, otherwise a post like this offers no value. If you're not sure what to include in a change log, take a look at how the SQL Server team do it with their service packs and cumulative updates.
Feature updates, like what is described in this blog, and more innovative changes will be included in future versions of Office.
I understand from the last comment key features will be available in later Office versions. I'm sure some small % of readers actually have Office 365 and can get these updates. For the rest of us, reading this blog is futile and frustrating. While I am an analyst/developer and would be willing to promote and embed these Power Map models into many employer's operation for years to come, that will not happen so long as MSFT refuses to allow updates to 2013 Pro users... For further confusion, why does Power Query publish updates?
Exactly. Power Query have a nice open updating model (even supporting Excel 2010), but Power Map is completed closed. A very siloed approach. Good customer experience relies on a consistent approach. Perhaps the Power Map team can learn a thing from the Power Query team. You should all in fact be "one team", thus ensuring a consistent experience for us, your customers. Just listen to us, your customers.
Majority of the organization today are still in 2007-2010 and few started with 2013. Not all organization are into cloud yet, adding new feature to Office 365 only does not benefit most.
It seems MS is into promotion gimmick.
"more fixes in Power Map than in any monthly release so far". I guess we'll have to take your word for it.
What's the ETA for all of us to enjoy the new stuff on the desktop ?
Thanks.
When can we actually see a list of fixes or change log? Transparency please.