Took them a while to realise that that piece of software was a complete waste of time,

 

'hate to say I told you so' - All the flight simulator enthusiasts.

 

http://kotaku.com/5929141/microsoft-shuts-down-vancouver+based-studio

Yuppers, I'm not surprised in the least.

I expected them to hold out longer...

 

Even though I never liked Flight one bit I still feel kinda sad they're dropping it like a hot potato, now I hope they go back to making a Flight "Simulator"... but I doubt it.

So lets review, Microsoft Flight Simulator was a profitable production for 20+ years (I have to assume it was profitable or it would not have lasted such a long time). Microsoft Flight was such an economic flop is lasted barely six months. Not the first (or last) time MS has made horrific business decisions (can you say Zune) and hopefully it will result in them returning to the Flight Simulator franchise....I guess time will tell.

That's two teams dedicated to flight simulation they have fired in less then 2 years.

So far their track record for sticking with a solid title isn't going too well.

50 lashes for the guy who convinced Microsoft he knows better than all flight simmers and spawned this... game...

Looks like we'll be flying the FSX for another 10 years. Good night.

So that'll be another 2-3 years before they might try and revisit the genre!

 

What amazes me is that the add-ons industry must have told them in no uncertain terms that the concept was a non-runner yet they still went ahead with it! When the likes of PMDG say "errr, no" then that's quite a significant red flag... unless you're M$ of course!

Microsoft Flight has died.

 

No tears were shed.

Took them a while to realise that that piece of software was a complete waste of time,

 

'hate to say I told you so' - All the flight simulator enthusiasts.

 

 

Hi,

 

You may have told us about it many moons ago, but the way large corporations work is somehow different.

 

Did you notice that Microsoft recently announced their first losses in 26 years as a public company?

 

It was posted in this very forum recently :

 

http://forum.avsim.n...ny-in-26-years/

 

Since I am not privy to their decision making I'm making a guess, based on personal experience with large corporations (in a previous life, before I became a partner in my own company) :

 

In such cases, you can expect a lot of trimming. Whether "Flight" makes money or not is almost irrelevant. Flight is peanuts in comparison to other Microsoft businesses. It probably was not very succesfull anyway and since they posted losses, they needed to trim. Cut costs and overhead. Period.

 

Of course, this is only a guess but...

 

Bruno

So lets review, Microsoft Flight Simulator was a profitable production for 20+ years (I have to assume it was profitable or it would not have lasted such a long time).

 

As far as I can see somewhere along the line Microsoft seems to have lost the true vision and raison d'etre for the Flight Simulator Franchise. Truthfully, it was never any real "revenue generator" of any type, but it was a terrific "Goodwill/Loyalty Generator" for Microsoft as a whole...

 

As many will recall, FS was at one time the "semi-official measuring stick" by which true "IBM compatibility" of hardware was judged. When that eventually became irrelevant, it still remained as a very valuable asset vis-a-vis attracting and maintaining MS brand loyalty among many of the IT movers and shakers in the industry.

 

Unfortunately for Microsoft, these days they've managed to throughly disappoint and discourage many of their long time supporters because of their serious and sequential failures to satisfy expectations.

As far as I can see somewhere along the line Microsoft seems to have lost the true vision and raison d'etre for the Flight Simulator Franchise. Truthfully, it was never any real "revenue generator" of any type, but it was a terrific "Goodwill/Loyalty Generator" for Microsoft as a whole...

 

As many will recall, FS was at one time the "semi-official measuring stick" by which true "IBM compatibility" of hardware was judged. When that eventually became irrelevant, it still remained as a very valuable asset vis-a-vis attracting and maintaining MS brand loyalty among many of the IT movers and shakers in the industry.

 

Unfortunately for Microsoft, these days they've managed to throughly disappoint and discourage many of their long time supporters because of their serious and sequential failures to satisfy expectations.

 

It was a true 'loss leader' LOL, that's for sure, but yeah, I think the indirect benefits to MS were very good.

Lets face it.....Desktop PC is less then 10% of computer sales today and Iphone and Android has that dinosaur Windows beat at the moment.

 

Microsoft is a sinking ship if they don't evolve into the App market, Even making Windows 8 work on Phones and Tablets won't beat Android or Iphones.

Let's hope they wake up someday.

.Desktop PC is less then 10% of computer sales today and Iphone and Android has that dinosaur Windows beat at the moment.

Hey Matt how ya been ,Thats a scary statistic. I for one dread a world where everyone is walking the streets, head down, caressing their fondle slabs like brainless app and facebook enslaved zombies.

Hey Matt how ya been ,Thats a scary statistic. I for one dread a world where everyone is walking the streets, head down, caressing their fondle slabs like brainless app and facebook enslaved zombies.

 

All good here and I agree...we live amongst an army of zombies....LOL

 

Cheers