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tbuck

Make power BI desktop fully compatible with ARM CPU, such as snapdragon

Submitted by on ‎05-05-2025 05:45 PM

Considering the most powerful and versatile machines are being built on ARM processors and many developers preferring these machines due to the extended battery life, or performance per watt, I think it would be critical for Microsoft to start developing Power BI Desktop to be fully compatible with ARM64 processors. Windows ARM with a snapdragon processor is a great machine. It is where all machines are going. It's time for Power BI Desktop to get up to speed with everything else.

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Stinkys
Advocate II
Advocate II
‎05-05-2025 06:41 PM
Power BI Desktop should be supported on ARM64 based processors, or at the very least, officially supported via Prism. Microsoft sell ARM64 devices in Surface, so it certainly seems unreasonable that a core business product such as Power BI is easily written off due to ARM64 not being on the minimum requirements list. Future buyers beware - your mileage may vary with Power BI Desktop on Windows ARM (including OSX hosted VM). Consider whether you can afford to not run Power BI Desktop locally as it is not officially supported.
chad_pawlenty
Regular Visitor
‎05-06-2025 06:51 PM
I lobbied my IT department to purchase a fully loaded Surface Laptop 7 fully expecting Microsoft to lean into their ambitions for transitioning to ARM64. I agree with the original post; this is core business software in 2025, and I am struggling to connect how Microsoft’s creative vision for industry leading hardware is leaving behind such a significant gap.
00009
New Member
‎05-07-2025 02:46 AM
I'm on a Macbook pro M4 and would love to have PowerBI Desktop support as well
Karim-Benabd
New Member
‎05-07-2025 03:35 AM
I'm on a Macbook pro M1 Silicon and would love to have PowerBI Desktop support as well
willmasse
Frequent Visitor
‎05-15-2025 03:00 PM
Microsoft should not be producing Windows on ARM if they aren't going to support their own software on the platform. The below error is preventing me from using my machine. I'm on a Snapdragon X Windows machine. Very dissapointed. https://community.fabric.microsoft.com/t5/Issues/March-2025-Update-Error-fetching-data-for-this-visu...
Stinkys
Advocate II
Advocate II
Wednesday

Hi everyone, I think I have some good news!

 

I have just tested W11 Insider programme build 27863.1000 rs_prerelease with Power BI Desktop v2.143.878.0 (x64) May 2025 from the Microsoft Store and the visuals are all working again 🎉 I understand that this build contains an updated Prism emulator for ARM.

 

I wanted to test this build as Prism supposedly supports the AVX2 extended instruction set which is required by Rekordbox. It's quite possible that Power BI Desktop has introduced new requirements for AVX2 or some other dependency and it's simply a matter of time before this compatibility is rolled out to Prism as part of a Windows update. It's also equally possible that this update doesn't see production release for whatever reason.

 

If you want to try also, go to Settings > Windows Update > Windows Insider Programme and join the Canary channel. Note that this is a one-way operation, you cannot roll back without reinstalling Windows! I don't suggest doing this on your PC if you can't afford the downtime (eg: if it's your work PC). I tested this on my machine by creating a virtual machine in Hyper-V.

 

So hopefully it's just a matter of time and hang in there, kitty.

jvermette09
Regular Visitor
Friday
I very much support this idea.