http://blogs.technet.com/p-12c_pilot/archi...ce-Anxiety.aspxStraight from the horses mouth! A very generalised view with nothing that sells the product to me. If this was my business, and I wanted to make money, I'd be very disappointed with what I'd just written.

>>http://blogs.technet.com/p-12c_pilot/archi...ce-Anxiety.aspx>>Straight from the horses mouth! A very generalised view with>nothing that sells the product to me. If this was my business,>and I wanted to make money, I'd be very disappointed with what>I'd just written.>>So you posted the link just in order to critcise it?

Not sure I agree with you, Nels. He cut thru the BS and laid it on the line. This is the way it is, without frills or excuses. While it may not have sold the company line, at least he didn't try to sell us that line.Regards,Greg

I don't think he was trying to criticise it. It sheds some light on how a particular developer is thinking about the FSX release. At the heart of it MSFS needs a viable competitor in the flight sim market. Then I think we'd see some interesting results!!!!!

Competition is always a refining experience :)-------------------------------------------If it doesn't have a VC I won't be concerned :)

Today, more of the "underbelly" of FS development is exposed (via blogs such as PC-12's) and this has a good side and a bad side.I bet that if we had this level of knowledge of the development of FS2000, the whole community would have been in a tizzy back then. But people shouldn't "freak out"--together, we can build a great FS.But now, with multi-processing and DX10, things are a changing. This presents devs with a lot of interesting challenges.It is just going to take time for it all to settle out, but it will--it always has.RhettAMD 3700+, eVGA 7800GT 256, ASUS A8N-E, PC Power 510 SLI, 2 GB Corsair XMS 3-3-3-8, etc. etc.

I think if this guy did not work for me, I'd hire him!A well written, factual, and insightful explanation of why things are the way they are.To all of those who are having FSX anxiety, why? You can still fly FS9 until the dust settles or you get a faster PC. In the meantime you can wait, or buy it...it will coexist nicely on your hard drive with FS2004.My 2 cents,bt

He is also hinting very strongly at what I have been worried about for a while. It appears to me that with the move to DX10 and Vista that any projects done for earlier versions will have to be reworked from the GROUND UP. It's a really bad omen for anyone who does development of after market add-ons I believe. I am also worried about the whole comment about newer faster machines versus older systems and performance. It's not like they did not know about the perf issues. Please.Hornit

I think this post was very positive. MS is still monitoring the forums and is concerned with various reports and is looking into potential resolutions. Paul did not promise anything, but it is good to know that they are listening