Here is a first list of improvements that are going to be useful:
- Ability to develop and deploy customizations and even full xRM solutions more quickly and flexibly, with more granular security
- Customizations for Dynamics CRM 2011 can also be deployed directly to Dynamics CRM Online
- Contextual documents
- Developers can incorporate Microsoft Silverlight, Windows Communication Foundation and Language Integrated Query into cloud solutions
- Improved versioning, dependency tracking, and security features for managing the development of custom solutions
- Microsoft Dynamics Marketplace (more on that later)
