Ultimately it is my hope that there are enough people from ACES with business sense and the ability to fund or obtain funding to start a whole new company devoted to sim products.  It would be nice to still leverage all their years of experience in the field AND get a whole ground-up re-write of a new simulator product.

And if MS was ever to sell rights to the product anywhere (which really is not something they do) it would be to former ACES members who start a new company to carry on the legacy.

In the meantime I'm just happy so many companies such as our friends at Captain Sim continue to work towards releasing new titles for FSX and that FSX is still new enough to keep going even without MS' help for a few (or several) more years.