Please see the most recent updates in the "Where did the .com name go?" thread. Posts number 16 and 17.

After the disaster that was default FSX scanery (mostly desert) ORBX has set the bar very high for Microsoft to match in FSX11.
Aren't the ORBX sceneries "just" photoreal ground textures plus autogen?
Imagine having that for the whole globe and all the seasons...
What Pat said, our scenery is NOT, I repeat NOT photoreal, it is handcrafted from beginning to the end