Microsoft Dynamics 365 Software as a Service with Bling (updates/Service Packs in addition to the drip changes)

In my last post I talked about keeping up with what's coming (https://roadmap.dynamics.com) but I want to talk a little bit more about how I keep up.

One of the tricks is to know and understand the real versioning or the back channel versioning that you can see when you select HELP/ABOUT in the software.

Microsoft Dynamics 365 actually includes all features/functions/updates/service packs of version 8.2.x.xxxx

So consider the growth from the last numerous years 

v1.0.0.0

• v1.2.0.0
• v2.0.0.0
• v3.0.0.0
• v4.0.0.0
• v5.0.0.0
• v6.0.0.0
• v7.0.0.0
• v8.0.0.0
• Etc 

and all the version in between and now we are at v8.2.0.000

 The Microsoft Dynamics team recently posted more insight on this concept of Updates in the following post

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/crminthefield/2017/02/01/podcast-and-overview-december-2016-update-for-dynamics-365-aka-microsoft-dynamics-crm-2016-update-2-0-service-pack-2/