David Musgrave’s “GP logos throughout the years” article continues to receive great reviews and has brought back many great memories for those of us who have been around long enough in the business of building customer success stories with Microsoft Dynamics GP.
I thought I would bring back some very familiar images to many of you: the Dynamics GP splash screens! The splash screen is a bitmap file (.bmp) and was initially introduced with the release of Great Plains Dynamics and eEnterprise version 5.5 and has since been used by partners and customers to bring a more personalized look to their individual implementations.
NOTE: the functionality to load load a splash screen was introduced with Dexterity 3.x.
Splash screens have since been blended with company logos, ISV logos, product logos, replaced with soothing landscapes, tropical scenes, calming horizons, and anything customers, partners, and ISVs could envision to bring a level of personalization and pride of ownership after a successful implementation. Some users have even found it as a way to simply have some fun!
Great Plains eEnteprise 5.5
Great Plains eEnterprise 6.0
Microsoft Great Plains Business Solutions 7.0
Microsoft Business Solutions 7.5
Microsoft Business Solutions 8.0
Microsoft Dynamics GP 9.0 – This splash screen is just a composite of the Dynamics GP v9.0 logo with the 8.0 splash screen and was created by David Musgrave, but never introduced or considered for an official product release.
Microsoft Dynamics GP 10.0 – v10 does not really have a splash bitmap file and this is a composite version created from the standard screen. When you launch v10, if no splash.bmp file is present, it will display the splash screen you are used to. If there is a splash.bmp available it will be used instead of the default built-in splash screen.
I would like to hear from you. Email (mgomezb@bellsouth.net) me your favorite splash bitmap files, whether created by you or used at your customer and let me know about your experiences and memories building them. I will try to post as many of them with your stories.
Finally, make sure to check David’s new article on Customise the Microsoft Dynamics GP Splash Screen for more info on the topic.
UPDATE: The following splash.bmp files were provided by David Musgrave as a cool memory of his days at Winthrop Dexterity Consultants.
Until next post!
MG.-
Mariano Gomez, MIS, MVP, MCP, PMP
Maximum Global Business, LLC
http://www.maximumglobalbusiness.com/
Posted by Mariano Gomez 
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