To all of you posting that you need a Hotmail account to sign-up for the MS Flight Newsletter, where exactly do you get this info from?

Past experiences. Also, the following shot does not make it clear that I can sign up with my own email address.But to be fair, I hadn't tried it, so I decided to click on sign up.That's even worse. This is not a newsletter, this is market research.:(

As Flight will be Windows Live game, Windows Live account will be needed anyway.

As Flight will be Windows Live game, Windows Live account will be needed anyway.

At the moment I am running Microsoft FSX on a Windows XP Pro SP2 computer with no internet connection (Internet Explorer has been removed for that matter).I am only guessing, but I am probably not going to be able to run Microsoft Flight on my flight simming computer. My internet computer is a laptop that I had to remove Vista from and replace it with Windows XP Home SP3 just to get a reasonable web computer. FSX is out of the question on the laptop so I imagine it would not make a good Microsoft Flight system either.Regards, Mike Mann

We have to wait and see how it will be. I have few Windows Live games (like Batman: Arkham Asylum), and it is possible to make local account on computer not connected to the Internet.

As Flight will be Windows Live game, Windows Live account will be needed anyway.

You have no idea if this is the case (se comment above). Statements like these doesn't help anyone.But of course, Flight is going to be a "browser-based casual game" anyway. Oh all these conspiracy theories...

You have no idea if this is the case (se comment above). Statements like these doesn't help anyone.But of course, Flight is going to be a "browser-based casual game" anyway. Oh all these conspiracy theories...

Of course I don't know. It is just a speculation. Other Windows Live games require Live account to play online, or to download DLC, I don't see any reason why Flight should be different.I already have a Live account, so id doesn't bother me anyway. I have Steam, GoG.com, EA Store accounts too, one more, one less, it doesn't matter ;)

Gosh, all this drama! Since I have had a "Windows Live" account for years (it was required for beta testers to login to MS/ACES netgroups), all I had to do was click on "Subscribe." Done.

Gosh, all this drama! Since I have had a "Windows Live" account for years (it was required for beta testers to login to MS/ACES netgroups), all I had to do was click on "Subscribe." Done.

that was my point as well  ...  some people get really irrational when it comes to MS.  I have never understood that  :(

that was my point as well ... some people get really irrational when it comes to MS. I have never understood that :(

I think they lose focus that actual human beings work there. In this case they don't realize that it would take more effort to make an arcade game than sticking with the sim they already have....

that was my point as well ... some people get really irrational when it comes to MS. I have never understood that

I also get "irrational" about the need to create accounts and passwords for even the simplest transaction on the internet. I just want to go to a sites, buysomething, give my credit card details and a delivery address. In the case of Flight, why cannot Microsoft create a page with direct links to the newsletter(s)? Many others do that.

Here is the part I do not like:Clicking I accept means that you agree to the Microsoft service agreement and privacy statement. You also agree to receive email from Windows Live, Bing, and MSN with service updates, special offers, and survey invitations. You can unsubscribe at any time.There is no "opt-out clause"... I really do not want special offers and survey invitations from MSN, Bing or others :( So I will rely on this forum to alert me to updates rather than allow Microsoft etc to send me stuff I do not want..Sorry!

...........That's even worse. This is not a newsletter, this is market research.:(

Yes - it certainly is, and this is why a lot of people have misgivings about the way MS (and some other organisations) do things in general........

Yet so many folks (half a billion, actually) forever sign-away their intellectual property rights and upload minutia of their daily lives to Faceb@@k with nary a twang of remorse. How does that compare to being asked to register with your own email for a newsletter?Let's keep things in perspective and call a spade a spade, shall we? For whatever reason, some folks just don't like Microsoft and then anything Microsoft does will be the subject of protest.Cheers,- jahman.

Let's keep things in perspective and call a spade a spade, shall we? For whatever reason, some folks just don't like Microsoft and then anything Microsoft does will be the subject of protest.

Actually, I have no problem with Microsoft, but I do not like the way they behave in this instance.To see the video, I have to install Silverlight.. To get a Flight Newsletter, I have to agree to receive all kinds of junk mail..Others try to do the same thing (ask me to install their stuff) but they typically offer a check boxto decline the software and mailings if I would like to opt out. Here you agree to the "bundle" andare left with a journey to find the various places where you can unsubscribe to each individual little piece that you have just signed up for and did not want. I do not like Google's way of attempting to install Google Updater at every turn either, soit is not only Microsoft that I protest against.. :(

I'm in agreement with those who didn't click the 'sign me up baby!' button, as I didn't either. I'm pretty sure I do have an MSN account from years ago, although god alone knows what my user name and password are, as I never use it, it's just another thing I have to right click on to quit from the system tray if I answer an email, since it fires up with that. I've no real axe to grind with MS, after all, we'd not have the flight sims that we do have if it wasn't for them, but what I don't want, is that thing in the system tray sapping RAM when I need every scrap of it to actually run FSX. I know it doesn't use that much RAM, but it's my RAM, and I'll decide whether or not I want it to be there for the benefit of the MS marketing department.This is not a dig at Flight itself, I'm personally looking forward to it. I think it will probably be quite good and I'll almost certainly buy it, thus I don't need to be buttered up by their marketing department whilst they spam me with other stuff, I just want to see those progress videos when they bang them out, purely out of curiosity more than anything.Al