phil white 269 Posted October 27, 2013 Report Share Posted October 27, 2013 I just saw a Youtube video in which it was mentioned that by next year you won't be able to activate FSX any longer upon installation as Microsoft will be closing the servers for good. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
brett 2,225 Posted October 28, 2013 Report Share Posted October 28, 2013 I have heard that a few times over the past year or two. I hope its not true and I also don't think they would do that to people that have purchased their product over the years. Where does that info come from, a reliable source? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
allardjd 1,853 Posted October 28, 2013 Report Share Posted October 28, 2013 Don't believe all the idle rumors you hear about things like that. They haven't closed down the FS9 activation servers yet and that was published a couple of years earlier still. Also, if that were to happen it would certainly justify, morally if not legally, that FSX users simply use a "cracked" version of FSX. No-CD versions of FS9 and 9.1 have been around for years to eliminate the need to have disk 4 in the drive. I don't normally condone using cracked software but if MS were to pull the plug on FSX I'd have to seriously re-think that. I don't know if cracked FSX exists yet or not (suspect it probably does) but if it doesn't, there will be some within a few hours of the FSX activation servers being turned off. John Quote Link to post Share on other sites
PCAviator 30 Posted October 28, 2013 Report Share Posted October 28, 2013 Don't panic. All rumours! They won't shut it down. They are still making good money off FSX Gold Edition sales! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jaydor 345 Posted October 28, 2013 Report Share Posted October 28, 2013 Anyway, if you do a full backup of your computer then no problem, as you always have it to fall back on.. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
hlminx 301 Posted October 28, 2013 Report Share Posted October 28, 2013 Lets hope Microsoft are far too engrossed weakly waving a banner for Windows (hate) 8 than spoiling all the fun for thousands of FSX users who just want to continue to use it... I live in hope! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
flybytes 34 Posted October 28, 2013 Report Share Posted October 28, 2013 James (jaydor) is correct; if you do a full backup of your c: drive using disk imaging software then theoreticaly FSX should be recoverable in 5, 10 or 20 years time but with the caveat that your future computer/cpu may not be compatible with the MS -o/s you've backed up. It's quite possible that future cpus may have 128-bit or even 256-bit architectures which may not be compatible with FSX or even win-7, or to go even more extreme, the desktop computer as we know it may not even exist - swamped by touch screen tablets of ever increasing size - Intel/Microsoft may have abandoned current cpu architectures and instruction sets completely. So the only sure way of flying FSX for many more years will be to mothball a working PC + full software backups. Of course future computers will be so powerful that emulators for popular operating systems will be available won't they? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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