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Microsoft Flight Simulator X is the culmination of nearly 25 years of the landmark Flight Simulator franchise the most significant addition to date. Flight Simulator X immerses you in a beautifully rich and realistic world with dozens of aircraft and interactive Missions for a completely new ...
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Tragic Casualty of Microsoft Layoffs:  Flight Simulator  Grounded, Forever [Microsoft]
Tragic Casualty of Microsoft Layoffs: Flight Simulator Grounded, Forever [Microsoft]
i.gizmodo.com — The first blow to us from the layoffs Microsoft announced yesterday cuts deep into our childhood memories:... Flight Simulator is permanently grounded. The entire development team is gone . Flight Simulator debuted in 1982, making it one of the ... (more) Tragic Casualty of Microsoft Layoffs: Flight Simulator  ...
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Has Microsoft Flight Simulator Been Canceled after 29 Years?
Technologizer — ... ) and of Microsoft Flight Simulator X , the current version. Pop quiz: Can you tell which is which without peeking? Microsoft Flight Simulator SubLOGIC Flight Simulator for TRS-80

So, Flight Sim team, what color are your parachutes?
GMSV — After more than 26 years, it looks like Microsoft is bailing on Flight Simulator , the longest running franchise in its portfolio, or at least clipping its wings. When the company announced the first wave of a planned 5,000 layoffs yesterday (see “ ...

Videogame Technology Helps With Disaster Planning
Wired Top Stories — ... It's no coincidence that the software's birds-eye view sounds like something straight out of a computer-strategy game. Depiction founder Mike Geersten hails from Microsoft's games unit, where he was a product planner for Flight Simulator and later ...

First Look: VMware Fusion 3
Macworld — by Rob Griffiths , Macworld.com The latest salvo in the continuing battle of virtualization applications has been fired by VMware, with the release of VMware Fusion 3 Tuesday. Fusion 3 brings a number of interesting new features to what was already a feature-rich application. I’ve had a chance to use the final Fusion 3 code for the last week or so, and this First Look is based on my experiences with that code. Fusion 3 works in both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6, but takes advantage of changes in Snow Leopard to improve graphics and disk performance. If you’re running Snow Leopard with the 64-bit kernel enabled, Fusion 3 ...

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