<Yes.

Good - case closedDick 5G8><Does Microsoft believe that they used the correct strategy>with the release of the programs with known problems despite>the warning of pre-production beta status?>>>>Yes.

I will of course enjoy the new version of FS as much as I have enjoyed the current and previous versions, warts and all. I am a real world pilot and fly mainly smaller GA aircraft in FS. I don't need a whole lot of bells and such to enjoy navigating throughout the U.S. and abroad. Just a good cockpit with good flight dynamics and weather.I am flying the demo in Vista RC1 with a beefy PC and I can live with the trade off between cutting edge and functionally adequate.Regards,

What anxiety? Still have questions about FSX? So wait a day or two after release to get the game. You know this forum will be flooded with information once the game hits the streets. 24-48 hours would be more than enough time to get any questions you have answered.

Well, as you know, life itself is a black spiraling sucking vortex, punctuated by fleeting moments of false hope.[and then you jump] ;-)* Orest

Personally I hope the demo achieved what ACES wanted it to do. For me it did make up my mind to pre-order FSX when I had been in doubt over waiting till later. It showed I don't have to rush to update my PC just yet, it runs the demo just fine, in fact more smoothly than FS9 does currently.

Roger that Clayton. I suppose this avalanche of posts may prove somewhat useful for the beta team but are otherwise a huge waste of time since both the beta and demo versions are guaranteed not to be modified substantially when the release version comes out.In addition, since FSX is supposed to be optimized for Vista and since a very small portion of the FS community will adopt both FSX and Vista the moment they are available a lot of bandwidth is being chewed up unnecessarily.I looked into to some of the threads out of idle curiosity but I see no point in reading any more until...just as you suggested...a couple of months after the actual release at which time there will be thousands of posts to wade through.Regards,Jim

>Well, as you know, life itself is a black spiraling sucking>vortex, punctuated by fleeting moments of false hope.>>[and then you jump] ;-)>>* Orest>:) :) :) Well then Orest, you'll be disconcerted to hear that due to recently implemented "Energy Star" compliance measures, the "light at the end of the tunnel" will automatically go off 15 minutes afterwards each time we lose hope!:-hah GaryGB

Anxiety is waiting for the results of your prostate biopsy...certainly nothing in the FS World can cause anxiety.

There's far more important things to get anxious about I have to agree.

I'm anxious because I tried to get an AI plane to fly a holding pattern, but my poorly written code lost the ID to the plane, and it just flew on into the distance, ignoring me.

>Personally I hope the demo achieved what ACES wanted it to>do. For me it did make up my mind to pre-order FSX when I had>been in doubt over waiting till later. It showed I don't have>to rush to update my PC just yet, it runs the demo just fine,>in fact more smoothly than FS9 does currently.I only downloaded the demo at the weekend. I was not really interested in FSX or Vista/DX10 'till the bugs have been ironed out but after trying the demo and spending an hour or two tweaking, I also pre-ordered it. I have never pre-ordered any FS sim since my first Fsim version 6.0 for Windows 95 and having the option of viewing a demo certainly made me fork out