I´m going to say this..just for now, and pretend i never did:
I was a HUGE CFS2 fan, heck, i even (and still do, from time to time) support it, i left CFS2 just because i´m all fed up with WWII based sims (ok, there i said it)BUT:
CFS2 has grown into a very complete sim(despite it´s real limitations) way after MS dumped it´s dead corpse into the sea, no s**t!. a lot of FS8 and some FS9 sceneries has been imported on, not to mention new versions of former FS9 (FS8) aircraft have been made by the comunity and there is even a very clever tweak to get some "working" SAM´s , and no one has given even a HINT of some kind of tool, and you wont find a "cheap" set of discs for sale, not even on Ebay, these days (every CFS2 hard core fan treasures their copy)
So, IMHO, what will happen with FSX and the coming future?from a developer standpoint...thank MS!, we now can explore more stuff without worrying of what will come next and kill current development, and i even know as a fact, that teams are assembling "research and development" depts to get more of the FSX engine, which is an extremelly powerful one..and with almost NO ms help on that matter.Can you imagine what will happen if we could get some of the "insider" tools???....
Best regards
Prowler