Evolutionary History of Microsoft Fabric - Spreadsheets to Lakehouse 

Liked this very much. Even though I have been involved with BI for a long time, I am relatively new to the MS tool stack and this is a really helpful overview, thnx!

Great content here. Filled in a lot of gaps that I have thought about from the last few years.

Superb! Thanks so much for connecting all the dots, and making the Fabric strategy and roadmap so clear.

Loved your presentation, thank you for creating and sharing it! It may be worth mentioning that PowerPivot (the vertipaq engine) did not come from the blue (or green), but really from Analysis Services. It shipped initially only in Excel, but it was 100% analysis services.

great presentation and thank you for providing this visual roadmap. even though i've experienced all of these technologies first hand since sql 7, it's actually a good reminder of how the individual components have evolved and now converged into fabric.

Great presentation, thanks

Great presentation. Congratulations. I've always liked to "sense" the evolution of IT offerings (software products and services)

Very nice summary, thank you for taking the time to share it!

Things just went berserk around 2022, in a good way! I can totally relate to everything from SQL 7 until it had just started going Azure and then the advancement is exponential each year! Very informative reference video, Greg. Thank you!

What a great presentation! Excellent stroll down memory lane. I wrote a book with Dan English about PowerView back in the day and PowerView got scrapped within days of the book's release. LOL!

Crazy to think about how fast this has happened

great presentation that cuts through all of the marketing nonsense and shows real lineage

omg you are genious - danke!

Great job on compiling everything. I'd like to offer a small suggestion if that's all right. Engine - VertiPaq 1. a box for VertiPaq which connected with 1.1 PowerPivot 2010 Add-In for Excel 2010 1.2 Analysis Services Tabular Mode 1.3 SQL Server 2012 - Columnstore storage VertiPaq rename to xVelocity in 2012 Acquired 2. Maximal Innovative Intelligence which is connected 2.1 Microsoft Data Analyzer (2002) (for OLAP)

Great job! Thank you!

Good stuff. Thank you.

Thanks for the insights, how much of the Fabric promised land is real vs roadmap/vision?

Oh how I wanted the decomp tree to have colors... but alas MS locked the code and even the old Proclarity people were not permitted to implement it for us! I may still have a performance point book or two around. It was a tough use case for sure. Thanks for walking us older folks along the trail.