Generally, these companies like Microsoft, Apple, Blackberry, etc...are hedging on what the next big thing will be. They are trying to develop a new and improved method for us common folk to access the things we access, and at the same time link everything we do to every other thing we do, and link to every other thing that every other user does to everything we do...
It's all really a gamble, since they have no way of really knowing what the consumers will think when it is released. They can guess, reasonably accurately through market research, but the real answer is never known until sales figures (or lack thereof) roll in.
So is Windows 9 (insert catchy moniker here) the next big thing? Or will we be looking at another "some-thing-or-other" operating system from "who-knows-who", or will the concept of home computers vanish completely and we will all start using some sort of glorified netbook device that relies on everything being hosted in some sort of cloud type system (ie: we don't even have full on operating systems anymore...just a smarter GUI device)?
musicflyer2 wrote:...will FS2004/FSX be compatible with it?!?!
That is always a big "who the heck knows" until it is released and some sim pilot tries to migrate to it. I believe that with the dependence on clouds and internet product distribution and activation, the fact that older software does not work on newer systems is of very little concern to these companies. I personally would not count on it, and even if you could run FSX on windows 9, what could you possibly gain more from FSX?