Hey everyone! A few months ago, we all talked about the survey that was supposedly sent out by MS to gather information regarding the next release of MSFS.
Now today I've gotten this email in my inbox...I'm reluctant to do anything that involves installing mysterious software on my system. Anyone else get it? What are your thoughts?
[quote] Our goal with this study is to see how our customers use Flight Simulator 2004 at home. The files we provide record what aircraft you use most often, which flights you fly, what features you use, etc. It lets us see what our customers actually do when they are flying. We can take what we learn from all of you and craft a Flight Simulator that is attuned to how our community really uses our product.
If you elect to proceed with this study, follow the steps below to download and run the FSLog.msi file. The FSLog.msi file will install two items on your computer.
The first item is a program called Watson, this program will take the data that is recorded while you use Flight Simulator 2004 and automatically send it to our servers so we can see what you did in that session of Flight Simulator. This requires a broadband connection. You also need to be running one of the following versions of Windows on your computer; Windows 2000, Windows XP Home or Windows XP Professional.
The second item that will be installed is a file called FSLog.dll. FSLog.dll will record everything you do inside Flight Simulator 2004 and temporarily put it in a log file. The first time you run Flight Simulator 2004 after installing the file, FSLog.dll will run a program called DXDiag (already part of the Windows operating system), which provides data on your processor speed, your video card, the amount of RAM you have, etc.
This will only record information from Flight Simulator sessions; nothing else you do on your computer can be recorded. Every time you exit out of Flight Simulator, Watson will send this temporary log file to us. After you finish using a Flight Simulator session, a four question survey will appear that we
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