Power BI, HTTP/2, Internet Explorer 11 And Older Versions Of Windows

A very quick performance tip: do you have users consuming Power BI reports with Internet Explorer 11 and an older Windows OS like Windows 8.1 or Windows 7? If so, their reports are likely to be slower because over the last few months some important performance optimisations were made in Power BI that rely on the HTTP/2 protocol, and while all modern browsers like Edge and Chrome have supported HTTP/2 for a long time now, Internet Explorer 11 only supports HTTP/2 on Windows 10.

Source : Chris Webb’s BI Blog
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