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