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Hi, I have a question. Can you tell me whether all of the FSX products are able to work through Steam? Thank you very much for your help.

Sincerely,
Connor Richey

Sorry for the delay in my reply...

I am a user of FSX-SE (Steam version)....well, apparently there are no differences...but depending on the user it can vary: I personally use freeware planes and free addons, some planes with a simple installer, and texture packs (which are installed manually)... I never had any problems of any kind...
but if you ask about paid software (PMDG, weather software, etc...etc) I'm sure there are manuals, or ways to install it successfully (I'm sure they explain its compatibility or not in FSX-SE)

What do you mean, "not in FSX-SE"?

He meant the payware developers always explicitly mention if their plane is compatible or incompatible with FSX-SE (FSX Steam Edition)

We don't know if all of Simviation's FSX products are compatible for FSX Steam, do we?

Let me try to clarify this. FSX-SE is basically the same as FSX Gold + Acceleration. The directory structure is exactly the same but in different locations. All FSX addons should be compatible with both. The only problem might be with auto-installers if the installation path cannot be redirected.
I never trusted auto-installers as you have no idea where the files are installed to. Assuming you know how to manually install addons I would always recommend redirecting the install path of an auto-installer to a temp folder & installing them manually from there. If that's not possible I would leave well alone.

In the end the best way to find out is to try it.

Ok.