I wonder when Flight will be released and how different it will be from FSX. It looks like XP10 and Flight will compete directly.

thats my exact worry. XP10 has always been an also-ran compared to the MSFS line, and there's a lull in civ sims now that they could fill. They have a critical moment this year to get ahead of the game, and I'm worried they're trading that for more game features.

X-Plane and Microsoft Flight Simulator (even if it is going to just be called "Flight") are a bit like the "Taste Great / Less Filling" or "PC vs. Mac" of the flight sim world. I'm not so sure that the timing of XP10 is all that critical because there just seems to be so much entrenchment in the civil flight sim market. Heck..there are people that won't budge off of FS9 because of their investment.