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Microsoft FS Team Wants to Hear From You

Posted: Tuesday, March 29, 2005 - 21:34
The Microsoft Flight Sim Team today sent us this item; "The Microsoft Flight Simulator team wants to hear your voice. Help us understand how you use Flight Simulator so we can continue to shape a product that all of our customers enjoy. Click the link below to take an initial survey to see if you qualify to take part in this important study."

You can take the initial survey in this important study here: https://www.datstat.com/playtest/Collec ... ticipating

(dunno why but theres a space between "interest" and "_in_participating" in the url. You'll have to remove it when you go to the url (or if someone could fix it  ;D))

Edited the link but it still doesn't seem to work... :-/

The link at AVSIM does though, but seems ridiculously slow...

Yeah, I keep getting Proxy errors. I have to do each thing twice before it works  :P

get rid of the spaces, yes i said spaces as in both of them, between intrest and _in and go.

I took the survey and it asks where you heard about it from. Of course I said AVSIM Simviation.

I got thru to it tonight (about 9:00 PM Eastern USA) by using a copy / paste and adding the missing part in the navigation bar on the browser.  Filled out the preliminary survey..... there are lots of questions.

You HAVE to have a broadband connection to participate in this study from the sounds of it.   They will send you software that will automatically download to Microsoft after you are flying.

I too said "SimV".... since it was an option to select....which was actually an interesting fact.

best,

.................john

I got the link from Avsim but I first heard about it here, so I put SimV with PRIDE!!!

Very interesting, I hope I get picked! Shows you Microsoft is interested in making another Flight Sim! Yeeee-haw!!!

I filled it out too. Sounds interesting.

Probably no matter what anyone has to say, M$ will do it however they wish to do it, and no matter how they do it some will be happy and some wont.....so I'll just wait till it comes out and then decide if I want to change from FS2004....

...mmm....call me an old cynic, but are you all totally sure it is M$ who are putting intrusive software on your PCs to gather info..............some funny things going on out there don't yah know........commoner  ;D

[quote]...mmm....call me an old cynic, but are you all totally sure it is M$ who are putting intrusive software on your PCs to gather info..............some funny things going on out there don't yah know........commoner

I just checked the domain for this survey at Register.com, and it lists the owner as a George Dittmeier with DatStat, Inc. in Seattle.

[quote]...mmm....call me an old cynic, but are you all totally sure it is M$ who are putting intrusive software on your PCs to gather info..............some funny things going on out there don't yah know........commoner

I just filled it out, no probs, over at flightsim.com!

The thing that makes me more than a bit aprehensive about all this is that filling out a survey is not nearly enough?
They also want personal info and to install what amounts to spyware that sends your FS habits back to who knows where every time you run FS?

No thanks.

I got nothing to hide but, I value my privacy and the value of privacy keeps getting higher since we all have so little left of it anymore!

I got nothing to hide but, I value my privacy and the value of privacy keep getting higher since we all have so little left of it anymore!

I totally agree with you. Even i thought of getting involved in the survey at first but if they are putting some program into your system which monitors my FS then as you said 'No Thanks'.