The pile of crap that is FSX makes me not want to buy this (for one thing, try to fly knife edge with the Extra). A promo video rarely says anything about the real game.

Ever flown MSCFS on Lan? We tried to fly it because of the Spitfires at that time. All of us were flying over Normandy, some in nice clear weather, one flew next to us, but flew in hail and thunder others flew between mountains just 20mtr apart of us. We even saw players in thin air.. only prop and pilot whizzing by (stealth?). Same for the 'FS' series. All flying over Leeuwarden the Netherlands and half over the mountains (!), I'm not even mentioning the 'crates' sinking in the concrete runways.

I use Mozilla Firefox, and every time I've tried to open the video from that website, XP insists in installing Windows Media Player 10 to watch it, in spite of having both VideoLan and KMPlayer media players installed (and not WMP10 indeed).

In my opinion, such M-S's persistant policy of forcing me to use their products would be alone a good reason to not to purchase such "Flight" thing, whatever it is. :)

I had enough flying CFS1 years ago (my first online Sim), then enjoying CFS2 (the best at that time, IMHO, till savage modding spreaded on line) and being disappointed with CFS3 :(

Fortunately, we have IL2 and will have SOW. Who needs another M-S Flying crap?

I used a downloader (either downthemall or download helper) to bring in the wmv file, as it was un-watchable for me whilst been streamed. I could then open it in another player.

The trailer is available on youtube since several days.

Not sure, but you might need silverlight as well.

lol .. that says wonders for Microsoft that you need to go to youtube to get a bug free version of one of their promo videos :D

I am not surprised. I have given up trying to get Windows Live to download and install on my win7/64 work machine, (I am assuming some microsoft snoop/validation software is having trouble with our corporate firewall).

MS-Flight on Shelves before SoW?
 

Even if MS-Flight is just being started today, it's my bet that it will be on the shelves before SoW.

That's not my preference but we've been looking at videos, Screen-shots and seen interviews of Oleg and SoW for how long, 6 years now? That's a bit of a wait. SoW has always looked REALLY good but IF it never makes it to market, what does it really matter?

I liked FSX AND we didn't have to wait half a decade to see it.

That said, I REALLY liked (preferred) IL2 and it would be nice if there was some sort of sort of official indication of when it's going to be released. 2010? 2012? 2015?

Really, when?

As far as MS-Flight videos not working, perhaps it's your own system that's not set up correctly; I had NO problems viewing the video.

Come on, I cant believe that you guys can´t recognice the difference between a renderer movie and real time image. That video is renderer for sure, not RT.

The last official hoped for release date is sometime this fall, but it doesn't appear to be likely. Hopefully by Christmas but thats also iffy.

I doubt very much that Microsoft flight will be out before SOW, but anythings possible. The Microsoft Flight video is probably as phony as their FSX DX 10 screenshot and the promo video for CFS3. Microsoft has been using blatant false advertising for quite sometime. Microsoft Flight is supposedly being released sometime in 2011, probably late 2011. Since they dropped Simulation from the title it could come out earlier as Microsoft Light.