Microsoft changes Flight Simulator based on recent events

[clarkse]

Microsoft moves quick

They're gonna remove the WTC from future versions, and change the intro to the game.

It's good they're doing this so rapidly.




Steve

 

[Angrymarshmello]

A good move by them - and they did it on their own free will.

 

[joohang]

Thumbs up.

 

[Ameesh]

<< Thumbs up. >>



man you should work in microsoft PR joohong, let me know if you ever want to work here!

 

[Ronstang]

Why wouldn't they? I realise they are doing this for emotional reasons and as a reaction to their software being displayed all over the networks as a terrorist training tool, but they are trying to create an accurate flight sim and, I really don't mean any offense by this, the WTC isn't there anymore.

 

[joohang]

<< man you should work in microsoft PR joohong, let me know if you ever want to work here! >>


Now?

I want a developer position, though. So I'm building up more and more development experience. I just got involved in a project that follows around MSF principles to build a .NET application for course management.

As a matter of fact, I just flew through 3 days of "ASP.NET in 21 days" in the past 3 hours.

My dream job would be to be a speaker at PDC or TechEd. And write columns at MSDN.

 

[j0lly]

Smart move.

 

[Logix]

More swift changes:

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010913/en/film-attack_2.html

The Walt Disney Co. and Warner Bros., a unit of AOL Time Warner Inc. indefinitely postponed indefinitely the release of two fall films that had a terrorist element, ''Big Trouble'' and ``Collateral Damage'', respectively.

Sony Pictures Entertainment, a division of Sony Corp (news - web sites). , yanked advertisements for next summer's ``Spider-Man'' which featured the super-hero climbing the Twin Towers.

DreamWorks, too, decided to end an early ad campaign for its October movie, ``The Last Castle'' The film stars Robert Redford as an Army General who was court-martialed and jailed before leading a prisoner revolt, and the ad featured an upside down American flag -- an international sign of distress.

Other troubles developed quickly. The ending for Sony's action film ``Men In Black 2,'' about secret government agents who battle aliens that is scheduled for release next summer, will have to be changed because it ends with the World Trade Center as a backdrop. A Sony spokeswoman said they do not yet know how it will be reworked.

Over at MGM, an early version of a Jackie Chan film ''Nosebleed,'' in which he was supposed to have portrayed a window washer at the World Trade Center, surely will be revised. An MGM spokeswoman said the studio had always planned to change the film, anyway.