This is just a way for microsoft to capitalize on addons. You get to download it for free and probably pay an online fee, and for every adventure or addition to it you get to pay microsoft again and again.
Sorry, guys I'm thinking this will be a bust.
I wouldn't want that much interference. Maybe the WOW crowd will like it, but I doubt it because flight simulation is not as simple as hacking on a troll for 10 minutes.
The guy tops it off at the end of the trailer with... all you need is a mouse. Right and that will take immersion to a new level. Where does MSFT find these people. They dug up Hatfield from Red Baron and he ruined the CFS3 and now they are going to mess up the old standard "Flight Simulator".
I'm beginning to think Bill Gates was the luckiest man in the world to snatch the DOS gambit from IBM. I'm suspicious that he is seriously overrated. Everything he has developed was bought from someone else and exploited with talented people he hired.
MSFT bought Foxpro and did nothing with it, except to buy out a superior competitor. Now MSFT is getting ready to quit Foxpro. So, what we will end up with is the C+,C# and visual basic.
A really good movie dealing with Flight...
http://www.youtube.com/MZjaVdJt59U