Microsoft's getting the band back together!
 

A few years ago, in what might be the greatest tragedy of the flightsim world of the past 10 years, Microsoft discontinued Flight Simulator and laid off the entire devteam.:cry:

However, a glimmer of hope exists!

A guy I work with just gave his 2 weeks notice.

His new job? Working at Microsoft on the next Microsoft Flight Simulator release!

Hopefully the project won't get cancelled before release...

Microsoft Flight (no simulator) it's already at beta-testing and it's not anywhere near as simulatory as previous Microsoft titles, closer to game than simulation I'm afraid. The good news is it'll be free, the bad is it'll only be the Hawaii region, there is no add ons that aren't certified by M$ and they're only available via Games for Windows Marketplace, graphically I don't think (from what I've seen from their screenshots) it can compete with the likes of Orbx scenery for FSX even with such a relatively small geographical area.

And the old band was the Aces Studio, afaik this isn't.

Well they're not really getting the original band back together... But what this guy is working on is definitely a new simulator title, not flight...

MS Flight seems to be an advertising program trying to lurk people towards online and cloud computing. It may look nice, but I question the cloud concept and the simulation quality of the title. In other words: I couldn't care less for Flight.