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Yeah, I'm certain that lots of people bought FSX, so it always puzzled me that they didn't do anything about it as the years went by. Granted, FSX was truly cri

Yeah, I'm certain that lots of people bought FSX, so it always puzzled me that they didn't do anything about it as the years went by. Granted, FSX was truly crippled by terrible performance, and it really hasn't aged well. It doesn't even run all that well on today's hardware, more than a decade later. That said, maybe DTG will do something with it.

smacktoward 9y ago
The legend around Flight Simulator was always that there was one and exactly one reason why Microsoft sold it: because Bill Gates thought it was cool. Gates stepped down from his day-to-day responsibilities at MS in June of 2008. The entire Flight Simulator team was laid off in January of 2009.
- cyberferret 9y ago
  Probably why the Excel team built a mini flight simulator right within the spreadsheet itself?!? :) [0] [0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gYb5GUs0dM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gYb5GUs0dM
  - Andrenid 9y ago
    I remember that blowing our minds when we first saw it. I miss all the Easter eggs in software. These days people just add the Konami code JS to their web site or app then pat themselves on the back for being original.
    - aidenn0 9y ago
      In the pre-win95 era, I think more MS programs had easter eggs than lacked them. Both solitare and minesweeper had cheat-codes (I used the latter to defeat my sister's high-score of 14s on small, getting a 2s. She was ufrious, erased all the high-scores and spent days getting her score back down to that).
- com2kid 9y ago
  > The entire Flight Simulator team was laid off in January of 2009. A fair number of them got positions elsewhere in the company, I ended up working with a few of them. The story I was told about its cancellation are a bit more complex, but still nefarious.
  - brianpgordon 9y ago
    Share!
MikeIndiaPapa5 9y ago
I don't think Dovetail will do anything past act like a third party payware developer under the guise of Steam DLC. At least they took initial steps to fix the horribly unoptimized engine which runs pretty smooth other than still loving to crash in certain situations.

smacktoward 9y ago

The legend around Flight Simulator was always that there was one and exactly one reason why Microsoft sold it: because Bill Gates thought it was cool. Gates stepped down from his day-to-day responsibilities at MS in June of 2008. The entire Flight Simulator team was laid off in January of 2009.

cyberferret 9y ago
Probably why the Excel team built a mini flight simulator right within the spreadsheet itself?!? :) [0] [0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gYb5GUs0dM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gYb5GUs0dM
- Andrenid 9y ago
  I remember that blowing our minds when we first saw it. I miss all the Easter eggs in software. These days people just add the Konami code JS to their web site or app then pat themselves on the back for being original.
  - aidenn0 9y ago
    In the pre-win95 era, I think more MS programs had easter eggs than lacked them. Both solitare and minesweeper had cheat-codes (I used the latter to defeat my sister's high-score of 14s on small, getting a 2s. She was ufrious, erased all the high-scores and spent days getting her score back down to that).
com2kid 9y ago
> The entire Flight Simulator team was laid off in January of 2009. A fair number of them got positions elsewhere in the company, I ended up working with a few of them. The story I was told about its cancellation are a bit more complex, but still nefarious.
- brianpgordon 9y ago
  Share!

MikeIndiaPapa5 9y ago

I don't think Dovetail will do anything past act like a third party payware developer under the guise of Steam DLC. At least they took initial steps to fix the horribly unoptimized engine which runs pretty smooth other than still loving to crash in certain situations.