Encontré esto en la página de X-plane... estos si que se estan tomando en serio la noticia de que Microsoft haya echado a la gente del proyecto Flight Sim.
"Microsoft has laid off it's entire Flight Simulator development team, and many people are not sure what to do next."
..."Many tens of thousands of people have been switching over from Microsoft Flight Simulator to X-Plane for quite a few years, and the current situation at Microsoft would seem to indicate that this trend will continue at an accelerating rate.
We at Laminar Research are ready for the influx of new customers that is coming in now, and will be facilitating the move from Microsoft Flight Simulator to X-Plane to make the transition as easy as possible for everyone, and continuing to make X-Plane the most powerful, accurate, flexible, and fun flight-sim there is. Here is our new Manual to help get new people started. Here is a Microsoft->X-Plane key-list to help people tansition.
With or without Microsoft, I believe that X-Plane is by far the best flight-sim on the market, and the development of new versions that we have going on behind the scenes right now... ooo boy, what's coming next will blow everything away that you have seen so far.
This page will be devoted to helping people convert from MS to X-Plane. We will post tools to convert airplanes and scenery, and tutorials explaining how to use and develop for X-Plane that are oriented towards people that have been using, and developing for, MS in the past...."
Here is our first draft:
http://wiki.x-plane.com/Category:Scenery_DevelopmentSigned: Austin Meyer, Author, X-Plane
(Austin Meyer is a software developer and the principal developer of the X-Plane software from Laminar Research.)