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Flight Simulator Devs Grounded By Microsoft Job Cuts [Disturbance In The Workforce]
kotaku.com - 1/23/2009
Flight Simulator Devs Grounded By Microsoft Job Cuts [Disturbance In The Workforce]
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Microsoft are slashing jobs. 5000 of them. While most of those won't affect gaming divisions, some of them are, with sweeping cuts announced for the company's Flight Simulator development studio....
Report: Microsoft Makes Big Cuts At Flight Sim Studio
gamasutra.com - 1/23/2009
Report: Microsoft Makes Big Cuts At Flight Sim Studio
— gamasutra.com — divider January 23, 2009 Report: Microsoft Makes Big Cuts At Flight Sim Studio Report: Microsoft Makes Big... Cuts At Flight Sim Studio Redmond, Washington-based ACES Studio, the Microsoft-owned internal group behind the venerable Microsoft Flight ... (more) Report: Microsoft Makes Big Cuts At Flight Sim Studio

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Where are the Microsoft cuts falling? | All about Microsoft
blogs.zdnet.com - 1/22/2009
Where are the Microsoft cuts falling? | All about Microsoft
— blogs.zdnet.com — January 22nd, 2009 Where are the Microsoft cuts falling? Posted by Mary Jo Foley @ 8:49 am... Categories: Windows client , Windows Live , Corporate strategy , Office , Zune , Xbox , Utility/cloud computing Tags: Steve Ballmer , Microsoft Corp. , Team ... (more) Where are the Microsoft cuts falling? | All about ...

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Microsoft’s game studios take a beating in layoffs
venturebeat.com - 1/23/2009
Microsoft’s game studios take a beating in layoffs
— venturebeat.com — Amid the news that Microsoft is laying off 5,000 people over the next 18 months, sources report... that the game division has taken its share of the beating. Gamasutra reports that the Flight Simulator studio , dubbed ACES, suffered big layoffs ... (more) Microsoft’s game studios take a beating in layoffs

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Gizmodo:  Tragic Casualty of Microsoft Layoffs: Flight Simulator Grounded, Forever [Microsoft]

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Tragic Casualty of Microsoft Layoffs: Flight Simulator Grounded, Forever [Microsoft]
Gizmodo — ... gaming industry. Both barely a game and so much more, Flight Simulator was an experience, and one of the first things on a computer that truly astonished me. I was flying (and crashing!) a real plane, really (virtually)! And all on my piece-of-crap Packard Bell that made me jealous of my friends' Gateways, which ran way better than my computer for reasons I didn't understand at the time. So, what was your first Flight Simulator memory? [Gamasutra via Kotaku] \ ...

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Among the casualties is ACES, which produced 'Flight Simulator,' Microsoft's longest-running game. But Microsoft said the 'Flight Simulator' franchise will continue in one form or another.