That's because consumers have moved onto smartphones and attention spans have been shortened from the quick hits of social media. Still, Microsoft may struggle to generate much excitement in a business that it helped popularize. But the update could showcase some of the cutting-edge technology coming out of Microsoft, including mapping imagery from the Azure public cloud, and it plays into CEO Satya Nadella's push toward subscription products and away from traditional packaged software.
On its own, Flight Simulator is a niche product that isn't likely to move the needle for a company that generates over $30 billion in quarterly revenue. "They might hint that they did, but honestly, I don't believe it."
"I don't think anybody in our industry had a clue this was going on," said Reed Stough, managing partner of Rex Game Studios, which develops detailed clouds and weather patterns for flight simulator programs.
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