thought you all might be interested to see this.... Job Title: Program Manager Job Category: Games Product: (Not Product Specific) Job Code: 126518 Location: WA - Redmond Travel Required: Do you have a passion for flight simulation and the desire to share that with the rest of the world? The game studio that produces MS Flight Simulator and other simulation products is looking for an experienced program manager to lead our external community development efforts. Throughout more than 20 years in continuous publication Flight Simulator has fostered an amazing grass roots community with little or no help from Microsoft but we realize that

Well, before this post gets yanked, I like this part of the announcement the most:We have an ambitious, multi-version strategy for making the community an integral part of the game experience

I never took the rumors that this was the end of the FS line for PCs seriously. FS9 was a huge hit.

There's already a growing discussion on this in this thread:http://forums.avsim.net/dcboard.php?az=sho...id=237353&page=

Yeah, but is it legit? Anyone can write something like that. Plus, there's no contact information or anything else. Yes, I know I haven't seen the whole listing. I could be wrong, but I'd bet someone is having a good laugh over this right now....

:-lol This isn't news (despite what some folks seem to want to make of it). The MSFS team are constantly hiring (and therefore we have stopped reporting on it - old news and all that), and a cursory look at the MS "employment" section on their web site will attest to that. To translate this into "the next version of FS is coming or is assured", is a "no brainer", except for some sites who divine this as a "scoop", apparently. Anyone who spends any time at all actually talking to the MSFS team members could attest to this fact. It doesn't take a job announcement to draw the conclusion that they are busily working on the next version - we already knew that, and have reported it accordingly (and therefore we have no need to make a big deal of it as some apparently have...). :)

Wow, the politics from both sides. I will now willingly skip these kinds of topics on both sites....

To answer your question in the subject header, probably not - see other thread for details.Bruceb

Very good Tom.How about this folks: Unless one of us tells you otherwise, assume there will be a next version, roger that?