I immediately subscribed myself.

When I got the welcome mail I noticed saasplaza.com in the url. SaaSplaza is a global Microsoft Partner that hosts Dynamics CRM solutions with a big office in the Netherlands. So when I connected to my free 30 day trial environment, I was not surprised to see it was the hosted version of Dynamics CRM 4.0. I think it is a good thing that Microsoft is actively pushing the online capabilities of Dynamics CRM in the Netherlands.

You can see it for yourself after subscribing at: http://www.microsoft.com/netherlands/dynamics/product/crm_online_formulier.aspx

If you want to subscribe to a trial of the real Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online offering you can use this link: https://signin.crm.dynamics.com/portal/signup/

Hopefully the Online version will soon be available in the Netherlands, so we can offer our customers Freedom of Choice in the Microsoft Software + Services world with the on premise, hosted AND the Online version of Microsoft Dynamics CRM.

To put it simple, Microsoft wants to offer their customer the freedom of choice by offering their products in 3 versions, On-premise, Hosted and Online(Saas).
Microsoft claims to offer exactly the same products in 3 version to make hybrid solutions and switching between version very easy.
This sounds nice, but seeing is believing.

Yesterday I read a Microsoft whitepaper about switching between a Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online deployment to a Microsoft Dynamics CRM On-premise deployment.
Basically the steps are requesting a copy of your Online database from Microsoft and redeploying this database On-premise. With the redeployment, you not only move your data, but also your configuration and your workflows.
This really convinced me: their claim is a promise and that they can deliver it !!!

In my opinion Microsoft has got a strong proposition with their Software + Services strategy.