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6 years ago
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Power BI Pro - Differences from Desktop

Hello - I have a very elementary question about the differences between PowerBI Desktop and PowerBI pro...   I've been working with PowerBI desktop and accustomed to the standard approach of connec...
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Greg_Deckler
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6 years ago

You are mixing 2 different things. Desktop is the desktop and is always free. Desktop can be paired with either Free, Pro or Premium Power BI Service. What Pro allows you to do over Free is primarily share your reports published from Desktop to the Service with others.

 

There are more differences but that should cover most of what you probably currently care about and clear up some confusion hopefully

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