Report: Microsoft Makes Big Cuts At Flight Sim Studio

gamasutra.com - 1/23/2009

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divider January 23, 2009 Report: Microsoft Makes Big Cuts At Flight Sim Studio Report: Microsoft Makes Big Cuts At Flight Sim Studio Redmond, Washington-based ACES Studio, the Microsoft-owned internal group behind the venerable Microsoft Flight Simulator series, has been heavily affected ...

blogs.zdnet.com - 1/22/2009

Where are the Microsoft cuts falling? | All about Microsoft

— blogs.zdnet.com — January 22nd, 2009 Where are the Microsoft cuts falling? Posted by Mary Jo Foley @ 8:49 am... Categories: Windows client , Windows Live , Corporate strategy , Office , Zune , Xbox , Utility/cloud computing Tags: Steve Ballmer , Microsoft Corp. , Team ... (more) Where are the Microsoft cuts falling? | All about ...

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Tragic Casualty of Microsoft Layoffs: Flight Simulator Grounded, Forever [Microsoft]
Gizmodo — The first blow to us from the layoffs Microsoft announced yesterday cuts deep into our childhood memories: Flight Simulator is permanently grounded. The entire development team is gone. Flight Simulator debuted in 1982, making it one of the longest-running continuous franchises in the gaming industry. Both barely a game and so much more, Flight Simulator was an experience, and one of the first things on a computer that truly astonished me. I was flying (and crashing!) a real plane, really (virtually)! And all on my ...

Microsoft Flight Simulator developers hit particularly hard by job cuts
CrunchGear — ... The Microsoft-owned developers responsible for the Microsoft Flight Simulator series (and the upcoming Microsoft Train Simulator) have been hit pretty hard by all those ...