New Microsoft Flight Simulator X site

Flight Simulator X fever and excitement abounds on the internet today with the demo version of Flight Simulator X becoming available from a number of sites around the web including a new Microsoft Flight Simulator X site.

http://www.microsoft.com/games/flightsimulatorx/

also a Flash website http://www.microsoft.com/games/flightsimulatorx/flash/default.htm

As I type this the first user screenshots of the demo have appeared at Avsim. It will be interesting to see the various responses to the demo in the flight sim communities.

It is certainly a bold decision to release a demo at this stage as FS X is still in beta. Microsoft ACES bloggers Paul P-12C Lange and Mike Taildragger Gilbert have both commented on the demo and the challenges it has posed in their blogs.

http://blogs.msdn.com/tdragger/archive/2006/08/09/693623.aspx
http://blogs.technet.com/p-12c_pilot/archive/2006/08/04/445078.aspx

The demo is not to be confused with the beta which was available to subscribers of FilePlanet. Actually there are two beta groups for Flight Simulator X, one run by FilePlanet and one by Microsoft.

Demo Downloads

http://www.microsoft.com/games/flightsimulatorx/downloads.html
http://www.gamershell.com/download_14950.shtml
http://www.fileshack.com/file.x/9240/Flight+Simulator+X+Demo
http://www.3dgamers.com/dlselect/games/flightsim2006/fsxprereleasedemo.exe.html
http://www.fileplanet.com/166127/download/Microsoft-Flight-Simulator-X-Demo
http://www.worthdownloading.com/download.php?gid=1959&id=8270