Translation differences between Power BI desktop installed from windows store and web

Thank you for your reply Anonymous.

The language of my OS is Dutch (Belgian variety more exactly), but the Windows display language is English. 

As for connecting to SSAS with Excel, we actually have a couple of .odc files to do that, and there we have to specify the “LocaleIdentifier=2067” property in the connectionstring in order to get the Dutch translations.

Excel Including LocaleIdentifier

If we connect with Excel to SSAS without the LocaleIdentifier property in de .odc, we get the same behaviour we see now in the Power BI Desktop installation from the web download, where table names are translated, but not the attributes/measures.

Excel Excluding LocaleIdentifier

We did notice another difference recently between de Power BI desktop installation from the web and from the Windows store, namely the “Regional Settings” tab in “Options” contains a lot more options in the installation from the Windows store.

Power BI Desktop downloaded from Windows Store:

Store Downloaded installation

Power BI Desktop Downloaded from the web: 

Web Downloaded Installation

I’m guessing that has something to do with it? Somehow the regional settings are handled differently between the two, even though they show the same version on the “About” page, there are clearly differences between the versions.

Our biggest issue with this behaviour is, like I said in my original post, not everyone in the organisation has Windows 10, and the Power BI Desktop download from the Windows store is no longer supported for Windows 8, so those people are forced to use the Power BI Desktop version downloaded from the web, and are currently stuck with a not fully translated model. (Unless there is a way to get the same behaviour/options as the Windows store installed version?)