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Ajay's avatar
Ajay
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9 years ago

Fixes to Power BI Pro License Required Dialogs

A Power BI Pro license is required to view dashboards or reports that contain Pro content. In some cases, our enforcement of this licensing logic caused confusion about whether content was Pro or not...
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mim's avatar
mim
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9 years ago

I think it is a reminder of the risk associated with software as a service, you are at the mercy of the vendor.  

worldundermine's avatar
worldundermine
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9 years ago

It's apparent that Microsoft is willing to alienate and abandon its users. There are better and cheaper options out there. Tableau is cheaper and easier to use depending on your organization's situation.

 

What I think we all *expected* from Power BI was to have fees (make them hefty if you must) for BI developers, but to offer *read only* dashboards to users in the same organization. For instance, Tableau Reader is FREE for users that are NOT modifying data/content. Now everyone has to pay to SHARE content? What is the point of this application otherwise?

 

I don't need to hear anyone defending Microsoft on this. Sure, it's their company and we are all at the whim of their ever changing services, but to simply disregard a good portion of you community is beyond words. All this does is cause us to NOT use Microsoft for anything in the future.