Hello. I think I might be losing the plot.
I have an Office 365 account and Power BI pro. This was my starting point and arranged by the company so I know little about the free options.
I'm forever showing it to others and explaining how good Power BI it is.
People ask me if they can use it and I've been saying that you can use the Power BI Desktop but would need an Office 365 account to use the Power BI Service to publish and access the data on the web. But is this actually true.
I've been reading further and it sounds like the service may be available to non office 365 people too. But I cannot find anything definative explaining this.
I've had similar issues understanding the Power BI pro versioning too though this is down to my understanding of Office 365 licensing, E3, E5 tenants etc - not something I deal with.
Basically I know someone who is really keen to use Power BI but doesn't have Office 365. Can they use it? No need to get bogged down in which features are available in this thread - just can they write a basic report in the Desktop version and publish to the Power BI Service for access online?