{"id":7393,"date":"2012-06-12T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-12T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2012\/06\/12\/microsoft-dynamics-in-a-soda-can-sort-of\/"},"modified":"2012-06-12T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-06-12T07:00:00","slug":"microsoft-dynamics-in-a-soda-can-sort-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20120612-00\/?p=7393","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Dynamics in a soda can, sort of"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is not uncommon for a product team to produce some custom soda cans<\/a> (really, carbonated water) for distribution at Microsoft cafeterias. Last year, the Microsoft Dynamics™ CRM 2011 team put some custom cans of sparkling water in the coolers extoling the virtues of their new product. It took the form of a side-by-side feature comparison. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
<\/td>\nwater<\/td>\n <\/p>\n
Microsoft
Dynamics CRM 2011<\/font><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Used by leading companies worldwide <\/td>\n ● <\/td>\n ● <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Available in the cloud in at least 40 markets <\/td>\n ● <\/td>\n ● <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Available on premises worldwide <\/td>\n ● <\/td>\n ● <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Consumed through a native
Microsoft Outlook client <\/td>\n		 Not
recommended <\/td>\n		 ● <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Is a great thirst quencher <\/td>\n ● <\/td>\n   <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Makes people more productive <\/td>\n ● <\/td>\n ● <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
New flavor coming in January 2011 <\/td>\n   <\/td>\n ● <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
the<\/span>
POWER of<\/span>
PRODUCTIVITY<\/td>\n		 Learn more at http:\/\/crm.dynamics.com\/<\/a> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

They didn’t stop at soda cans. They also branded the napkin dispensers. (The napkin dispensers have a clear panel in which a message can be inserted.) <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
<\/td>\nnapkins<\/td>\n <\/p>\n
Microsoft
Dynamics CRM 2011<\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Used by leading
companies worldwide <\/td>\n		 ● <\/td>\n ● <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Used for recording
and sharing ideas <\/td>\n		 ● <\/td>\n ● <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Available on premises
worldwide <\/td>\n		 ● <\/td>\n ● <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Available in the cloud
in 40 markets <\/td>\n		   <\/td>\n ● <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cleans up messy
IT departments <\/td>\n		 ● <\/td>\n ● <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n
the
POWER of<\/span>
PRODUCTIVITY<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

Microsoft
Dynamics CRM 2011<\/font><\/div>\n

In the cloud in 40 markets
worldwide—January 2011<\/p>\n

Learn more at http:\/\/crm.dynamics.com\/<\/a> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

(I changed the URLs from an internal Web site to the public Microsoft Dynamics™ CRM Web site.) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It is not uncommon for a product team to produce some custom soda cans (really, carbonated water) for distribution at Microsoft cafeterias. Last year, the Microsoft Dynamics™ CRM 2011 team put some custom cans of sparkling water in the coolers extoling the virtues of their new product. It took the form of a side-by-side feature […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-7393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"

It is not uncommon for a product team to produce some custom soda cans (really, carbonated water) for distribution at Microsoft cafeterias. Last year, the Microsoft Dynamics™ CRM 2011 team put some custom cans of sparkling water in the coolers extoling the virtues of their new product. It took the form of a side-by-side feature […]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}