Anyone persevering with FSX may be interested in this recent blog from Phil Taylor.
Phil is the Senior PM at ACES studio, responsible for Graphics and Terrain.He outlines the future for FSX and some reasoning regarding the product to date. This includes 2 updates MS plan for next year.
It gets a little techie but worth reading... <http://blogs.msdn.com/ptaylor/default.aspx> Kev T