It will be bought out by Microsoft who will promise to base the new MSFS XI on the SOW engine. MS will modify windows 8 to only work with MS endorsed flightsims like SOW but will they lose a US anti trust case over it in 2012.
There will be a famous copyright case involving the Eiffel Tower and royalties for use of its image (though apparently its only copyrighted at night). This is resolved by the gaming removing the Eiffel tower at night.
Whilst apparently successful MS drop the entire product line during the staff cuts in great recession of 2015. MS justify this by saying their profits that year had dropped under 10 billion and their shareholders had found that unacceptable
