Microsoft begins CRM Online Fall 2013 update rollout with EMEA, APAC datacenters

A Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2013 dashboard | Source

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2013 is now making its first public appearances with the rollout to new CRM Online Fall '13 instances in the APAC and EMEA data centers.

The "Fall '13 Update" is the CRM Online equivalent of  the upcoming on-premise CRM 2013 release. North and South America will start seeing the CRM Online Fall '13 release next week, according to the Dynamics CRM UK blog.

There are a couple of "caveats" for the next few weeks, according to Simon Hutson on the Microsoft blog post. First, the "Get CRM for Outlook" link is going to be broken until the on-premise release later this month. And the mobile client applications in the Windows Store and Apple iTunes will also be unavailable until the on-premise release of CRM 2013. But those in the correct locations can already create a 30 day trial without credit card details.

The CRM 2013 beta program has been running for some months now, but even as recently as last week, after (as describe in the Microsoft blog post) the APAC data centers had already made CRM 2013 available for new systems, many  professionals involved in the program were privately expressing concern about revealing any information about the upcoming release beyond what Microsoft had specifically cleared. Indiscretion during the CRM 2013 TAP program has been known to draw and specific warnings from a watchful Dynamics CRM team.

The rollout of the CRM Online Fall 2013 Update ...