{"id":127368,"date":"2025-01-27T09:43:02","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T17:43:02","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-06-11T07:39:28","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T14:39:28","slug":"january-2025-update-of-power-automate-for-desktop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/power-automate\/january-2025-update-of-power-automate-for-desktop\/","title":{"rendered":"January 2025 update of Power Automate for desktop"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are happy to announce that the January 2025 update of Power Automate for desktop (version 2.52) has been released! 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