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The Power BI Killer!
What if I told you that you could run Power BI completely for free? Not just the Power BI desktop, which has always been free, but also the service. That you could publish your reports, view those reports in a browser from anywhere in the world, share those reports with other people but not everyone, and you could even export to Excel. What if you could do all of that 100% for free. That’s what this article is all about and as a side note, I’ll also explain why Microsoft should probably just fire nearly all of their employees right now.
Let’s get to it!
I think that anyone that’s been following the data analytics and AI world with any interest has kind of known where things have been headed for quite some time. But the release of Claude Dashboards might just be a watershed event. In this post by Warren Dean on LinkedIn he explains that he was able to feed Claude a Power BI .pbix file and create a perfect Claude Dashboard replica in like 5 minutes. Both mobile and desktop versions, fully editable, can be shared publicly, you can also live connect to data sources as well.
Neat stuff.
But what I’m going to show you today is that you don’t even need Claude Dashboard to do all that because when you think about Power BI you’ve got the Desktop and that’s always been free. That’s where you make your transformations, create your semantic…








