Is that what THAT button was for?

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Some people (who are not me) have a way with words that fit into 140 characters. Witness Aaron Levie (who’s not usually a big fan of Microsoft):

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What on earth was he talking about?

My favorite new data toys! Power BI for Office 365. Whether you’ve got data in Excel, big data in SQL Server, or really big data in HDInsight, not to mention a whole host of other data sources that shall not be named, you’ve now have the power to turn data into insights at your fingertips (literally, if you have a touch screen).

Power Map is my personal favorite. It really empowers people who can’t normally think in more than 3 dimensions to understand time series data.

You’re right, Aaron. In the immortal words of Don Farmer, “you can now [officially] party on your data.”