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From: "Ted Kennedy" <ted.kennedy@compaq.com>
Subject: Re: The New MSFS
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Billy, give it a rest.
Billy Verreynne wrote in message <71piuu$nhi$1@hermes.is.co.za>...
>Tobin123 wrote in message <19981104073626.23469.00003640@ng67.aol.com>...
>>I heard not that long ago that Microsoft will be coming out with a new
>Flight
>>Simulator in or about the year 2000.  I was wondering, will this be a
whole
>new
>>game or an add-on to update the FS files?  Thanks in advance for any
>>information.
>
>
>MSFS2000 - a "new" product. The only new thing will be data from Jeppeson -
>they have signed contract with MS as the sole user/distributor of Jeppeson
>data for the next 5 years in the entertainment industry.
>
>You will be expected to throw some existing custom MSFS stuff away (like we
>had to do with all the previous MSFS version changes). But peel away the
>package, you will still find that same old and tired flight model that was
>fine for running MSFS 3 on a 8Mhz 8086. And we probably still have to fly
>the Cessna, Lear Jet, Sailplane and Camel...
>
>Upgrade? What's that? Of course you will have to throw away MSFS98 with all
>its manuals and most of the custom packages you bought. And buy at  -full-
>retail price MSFS2000. So bend over and spread your bum cheeks for another
>good screw by Microsoft. And if you read the disclaimers you'll discovered
>that the software is good for nothing and a piece of shit.
>
>Sorry, but I get really pissed off at these commercial software companies
>that milk us for every single damn cent we've got and then some more, and
>refuses to take responsibility for their software and hide behind all kinds
>of legalese in their disclaimers.
>
>Oh well..
>
>Billy <the one who take swings at windmills with a lead pipe>
>
>


