Microsoft not out of the flight sim game after all...

[FAE_Cazador]

Originally Posted by Antoninus

The trailer is available on youtube since several days.

Yeah I finally downloaded it from another website and watched it.

@Artjunky: Trying to see directly on the MS website not only forced me to install WMP 10 but, as I rejected that, my Firefox 3.8 got stuck and had to kill the Firefox process to go on. It's the only time I have seen such behaviour, I can tell you I have opened a lot of videos in a lot of websites with no problems

Well, and what about the video Just to see a Boeing Stearman flying by for some seconds, on quite nice waters and something like the "Jurassic Park" island on the background? (It also reminds me Oleg's funny island shown on screenshots posted months ago)

What does it shows? Vaporware, so far.

IMHO M-S has got what they wanted: just to make Air Sim community to pay attention to them again, at very low cost.

[artjunky]

Cazador,

It's just sort of silly now that it's been 5-6 years since talk of bob started.

Frankly, I don't care all that much when it comes out. It would just be nice if I had a date so I don't have to keep coming back here all the time just to make sure I didn't, somehow, miss the release.

As far as the video is concerned, with YOUTUBE, flash, and html5, there are a lot of things that are changing video formats. It's actually sort of amazing that we can actually play videos.

AVIs are falling out of use and it's really an issue with the drivers. Sorry to imply that you didn't know what you were doing...I was just trying to suggest that your system needs to be tweaked every once in a while to keep it working... Even then, there's no guarantee. And being on a 64 bit system, you add a few more layers of complexity...often drivers are slow to be developed in 64 bit...