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Old 07-24-2010, 02:36 PM
Feuerfalke Feuerfalke is offline
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doesnt have anything to do with competition. after bush's cronies had raided the piggy bank and the american empire collapsed (almost taking the rest of the world with it), microsoft simply shut down many low profit non-core departments as a radical cost cutting methods, and prepared for the worst possible economic climate scenario.

microsoft still kept a 3 man skeleton staff to keep the old flightsim information viable for later revival. since, like in the time of the romans, the peasants are now back to their "wine and games" mindset and lulled back into the trance of acting like passive consumer units they have been so well groomed for, i dont doubt microsoft will revive yet again one of their old proven games like ms-flightsim in the near future.

Interesting. So you say that the valuation, "low profit non-core department", has nothing to do with it's marketing value?