But first, a little history

Prior to Dynamics NAV 2009, the Development Environment was actually the primary end user interface before Microsoft revamped the user interface that we now call the RTC.

One of the greatest technological breakthroughs with the original Navision (the name before it was called Dynamics NAV) was that the application-programming objects, the user interface, and the database all resided together in one file! Back in the late 1990s and early 2000s, no other software came close to having a design as efficient as this. This was the main menu for Navision Financials Version 2.0:

We're now more than a decade past 2000, and technology has changed quite a bit. Dynamics NAV has kept up to date with the latest technology that has the best impact for businesses. However, most of these improvements and updates are in the backend. This is an important reason why Dynamics NAV has never faded away. There were a couple of user interface improvements that largely look and feel very...