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May 3 announcement FAQ
Hi Anonymous,
Sorry if the answers have not tackled your question about free users. As you can see, the FAQ does not mention Office 365 licenses or users at all and that is by the design: all Power BI permissions and features for Pro and Free users are defined by a Power BI license, not an Office 365 one.
This means, and to answer your question more specifically, if the users you're sharing dashboards and reports with today do not have a Pro license, they will need one on June 1st to do so. It doesn't matter if they are Office 365 users or not.
Free users, beginning June 1st , can take advantage of the extended Pro trial to continue accessing the content. After the extended trial expires, users will need a Pro license to maintain access.
Terms and conditions for the extended trial can be found here.
I have some follow-up questions on the Power BI Pro licenses.
- I see that the cost will be $9.99/month/user. Are staff fluctuates often so adding and removing licenses will be necessary. Is there long term licensing commitments or can we add/remove licenses every month?
- My team currently develops visualizations and dashboards within Power BI Desktop and we would like to use Power BI Pro to share these views. Is there additional charges associated with the development of dashboards/visualizations? Will we be able to continue to use Power BI desktop to create our visualizations?