Microsoft made the Release Candidate (RC) test build of its Dynamics CRM 2011 offering available for download as of December 14.(http://blogs.msdn.com/b/crm/archive/2010/12/14/microsoft-dynamics-crm-2011-release-candidate-rc-announcement.aspx)
This is a publicly available RC and “will be available until the RTM (release to manufacturing) release scheduled for Q1, 2011,” according to a blog post on Microsoft’s Dynamics CRM blog.