
The title is approaching 27 years as a successful software product, longer even than Windows, the company’s flagship offering.

The leading exception is Microsoft’s Flight Simulator. Their lives are ephemeral, and only rare exceptions live multiple years. The Chance Vought F4U Corsair, the General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark and the Boeing F/A-18 Hornet are but a few examples of designs that suffered teething problems before refinements helped them reach their true potential.įlight simulations lack the longevity of a production aircraft, and therefore are unlikely to see the revisions that can keep them on a path of improvement.

Perhaps an evaluation of an airplane is less about the plane than it is about its maturation.

A new expansion pack revs up Microsoft’s Flight Simulator.
