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The fact that I failed to begin my blog without first clearly identifying myself seems to be fueling the conspiracy theorists in the Flight Sim community so I thought I'd take just a minute to fill in the blanks. I didn't think who I was or what title I held was really relevant to what I had to say. Well, I guess now you can be the judge. Whatever...

 

 

Name: Mike Gilbert

Title: Lead Program Manager

Reponsibility: Ensuring success of the project, primarily from a production standpoint (i.e., making sure we ship excellent bits on time)

Tenure: 8 years at Microsoft; 4 on FS team

Experience: Former Access/VB/VBA developer, consultant and author; private pilot (~250hrs, 248.8 in taildraggers <g>); managed scenery production process in FS8 and FS9 before assuming lead PM role

Hobbies: Husband, dad, cooking, golf, transformation

 

So, you see I don't really do anything myself, other than make sure everybody else has what they need to go be excellent. On the up side it does give me chance to see how they do things and comment on it here. Happy now?

Comments

  • Anonymous
    September 01, 2005
    Hi Mike,

    Nice of you to show yourself proper <G>. Not sure about the rest of the public, but I'm happy now <G>.

    Best regards,

    Owen

    ******
    Owen Hewitt
    Dreamfleet 3-D Artist
  • Anonymous
    September 04, 2005
    People sometimes have to put a face on what they read... anyway, may I say, "Nice to meet you!" ? =)
  • Anonymous
    September 06, 2005
    Thanks. As a former Software project manager, I know how much fun that can be (esp. keeping the testers, SQA, and developers from going at each others' throats).

    I guess from a scenery designer viewpoint, the $64 question is whether SCASM procedural-style scenery still be supported or will everything be XML. It seems like the Microsoft corporate vision is XML and .Net, so maybe that answers my own question.

    I take it from the posts that Vista/directX10 (or whatever) is the target architecture. At least, that would make sense to me.

    One other thing -- it seems like other game engines (such as UT) work more with reviewers to provide benchmarking capability. Mostly what I see from the simming environment is OpenGL-based games. Since you have Kiosk-mode (does anyone use that) maybe a benchmark mode could be provided so that hardware performance could be sorted.

    scott s.
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  • Anonymous
    September 07, 2005
    Hi Mike,
    nice to meet you :)

    cheers

    JP.
  • Anonymous
    September 08, 2005
    Hi Mike,

    Between you and Steve L.. you two gents are setting a wonderful new precedent. You are letting us see something we once thought was impossible. I look forward to hearing more and having you guys continue to let us have a glimpse into the wonderful world of FS development at MS. It is refreshing and truely exciting to hear from you and Steve. All the best to the entire FS team!

    Regards,
    Jason

  • Anonymous
    September 09, 2005
    Mike, just read all your interesting and well thought out comments back to your first blog. As a FlightSim fan of many years I'am looking forward to reading your future thoughts concerning this great product.
  • Anonymous
    September 11, 2005
    Now come on who's picture did you post? HMMM?

    That picture looks...well...too NORMAL!

    I mean you're shattering my image of you guy's
    as somekind of Uber Geeks. The very least you
    could have done was wear a propeller beanie, or
    something like Steve Lacy has on his blog.

    He LOOKS the part..kinda half crazed. LOL

    Seriously, keep up the great work and glad
    you put a face up...even if its not yours<G>

    Denny
  • Anonymous
    August 31, 2006
    Honest work never hurt.