PowerBI Desktop for Macbook

[iamhassaan]

Is there a possibility that Microsoft will introduce PowerBI desktop native support for Macbook M1 and Intel chips. Its been a while and many users have requested this feature. Why doesn't Microsoft do something about it?

[sifos90611]

Please have a look - Power BI for MAC

[XamarinMaster]

The solution is simple.  Microsoft should eat their own dogfood and use .NET MAUI for the implementation of PowerBI Desktop for BOTH Windows and Mac.  They are heavily touting .NET MAUI and claim Mac is a first class deployment platform along with Windows.  So if they want developers to use it for cross-platform development, they should use it themselves.  Maybe that will help reduce all the bugs since Microsoft's own developers will be encountering them like everybody else.

[MartinMeadows]

It really is quite inportant that this happens. Not only to aid adoption but to remove friction for end users.

A massive organisation like Microsoft should be able to do this.

If they are not capable then can you make the web version have the same functionality as the desktop. This would also solve the issue of having friction using a vertual desktop.

[pranit828]

Hi @iamhassaan 

Microsoft uses lot of already created DLLs whick align with other tools it has released so that it can concentrate on improving the performance of the tool rather than building the foundation.

So, creating a app for MAC is far fetched as all the ground work needs to be done to support it on MAC and instead of one team working on one platform it has to double up its manforce.

Also, its not only PBI, there are ton of tools that can be used with PBI which also would be then required to be converted as per MAC. It will be like creating a new company itself.

I have the same situation and use a VM to comment to windows and use all the MS provided tools.

Hope you understand the complexity.

[hannahgrobinson]

Hi @pranit828 - could you please elaborate on how to use a VM to comment to windows and use all the MS provided tools? Many thanks.