Developers were caught off-guard by a new version of Microsoft's Flight Simulator, though the company says it still wants contributions from outsiders.
for the longest-running video-game series in 2012, three decades after its debut.
On its own, Flight Simulator is a niche product that isn't likely to move the needle for a company that generates over $30 billion in quarterly revenue. But the update could showcase some of the cutting-edge technology coming out of Microsoft, including mapping imagery from the Azure public cloud, and it plays into CEOStill, Microsoft may struggle to generate much excitement in a business that it helped popularize.
In 2007 Microsoft did issue an expansion pack, and in 2012 it released a spin-off to the series called Microsoft Flight. Two years later the simulator came to Valve's Steam video-game store. But other than that, Microsoft effectively exited the market.Flight Simulator website In the hours after the announcement, friends, family members and customers bombarded Meyer with text messages, emails and voicemails, some suggesting that it was over for his X-Plane. He watchedBut as he looked more carefully at what Microsoft showed, he felt more at ease. The buildings, cars, trees and shadows didn't look perfectly realistic to him.
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