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DSP
Frequent Visitor
8 years ago

Differences between Desktop and Service - is there a list?

Immensely frustrating that so much MS material on Power BI refers to features available only on the cloud version, and not on Desktop, without making this clear.   Is there a page somewhere that li...
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grcooper
Regular Visitor
8 years ago

I am also having trouble figuring out the difference between service, desktop, and PRO. Is service part of both?  

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    dkay84_PowerBI
    Microsoft Employee
    8 years ago

    Free and Pro are the type of subscription/license you have.

     

    Free vs Pro features:

    https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/powerbi-free-vs-pro/

     

    Service is the online report publishing/sharing service where you can create a dashboard (combining visuals from multiple different reports into one), whereas desktop is the report authoring application you run on a local machine.  You have access to the service with both a free and pro license, but the ability to share is only for Pro.