The Sails Are No Longer Shipping

By Eric Newell | July 16, 2015

Microsoft announced this week at their Worldwide Partner Conference in Orlando, FL that the logo for Microsoft Dynamics, which included a visual of three sails, is going away.

Microsoft Dynamics AX

When it first released, the sails were yellow/orange, blue and green but with the more recent releases they've moved to be dark blue on white or white on a dark blue background.

Microsoft has stated that they will just use the text Microsoft Dynamics, with no logo, in their marketing going forward.

I noticed my CRM Tablet app icon changed from the sails to this recently, so perhaps we'll see new logos for Dynamics CRM and the ERP products:

Dynamics CRM

Microsoft has not communicated further beyond the fact the sails are going away, so we'll see what happens next.

Eric Newell
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Eric Newell

Eric Newell is the CEO and Founder of Stoneridge Software. Since founding the company in October 2012, Eric has led the Stoneridge Software organization through rapid growth in team members, clients, services and product offerings and consistently successful ERP and CRM implementations. Eric was named Entrepreneur of the Year by the Fargo Moorhead West Fargo Chamber of Commerce in 2016. Prior to founding the company, Eric spent 13 years at Microsoft and led the North America Premier Field Engineering team for Dynamics.

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