And yet, it's here, and Microsoft has no part in its being here.

Yet if MS didn't finally relent and say OK it still wouldn't be here.

I'd prefer they bring MS Flight Simulator 5.1.
That would be a realy good old game :)

As for FSX: it is widely available still. You can get it used on disks or buy it on steam for close to no money, when on sale. The game sucks in terms of hadware efficiency / scaling. Its from 2006 and can still causes trouble, especially if you try to have it running smooth AND beautiful.
Vanilla it is plagued by a lot of (smaller?) bugs that sum up (switches mixed up in 737 cockpit, non working auto brake in Airbus, FBW implementation is a bad joke, missing switches, winds aloft bug is breaking your plane in high altitude cruise because of rapid wind changes). This gives a not so good experience without DLCs.
But these DLCs are a real money sink.
Many use DRM and/or (limited) online activation. Many of mine even won't run anymore on Windows 10 because of incompatible DRM).
So even if you get a DRM-Free FSX here for 5 bucks, you may end up spending hundreds in DLCs with DRM.

I don't think FSX would be a goog addition to the gog catalogue.

I personally use FS2004 more often than FSX today. It is simpler in function and visuals of course, but it causes so much less trouble. Especially it does not have FSX's tendency to crash (the game, not the plane) on final approacht after a 5 hours online flight at IVAO/VATSIM. :-D

edit: oh, necro :-D

Six and a half years. Yes!, six and a half years... 0.o

It took off on its own in unexpected directions, wouldn't you say? :P

P.S.: Microsoft is a big missing piece of the puzzle here on GOG, and I'm mainly talking about their early games, not any recent titles like MS Flight Sim.

I'd really ike to see the AoE games here. But I gather from this thread that it'll never happen:

https://www.gog.com/forum/general/is_microsoft_more_likely_to_sell_games_on_gog_than_activision_was

I would like to formally inquire as to the nature of rituals that users are performing as to find and resurrect thousand day old threads.

I then would like to secondarily inquire to GOG's staff as to why this is even allowed to happen in the first place.

LOL. I hadn't noticed the OP was in 2015. Well I'm not the one who necro-bumped this thread.

My best guess is that these users (aka: users who necro a thread accidentally) come to the "General discussion" and then click on the last page shown on top of the GD main screen, because they expect the newest threads to be found at that position.
But, of course: as the rest of us know - the newest threads can be found at the first page.

Hmm, that does unfortunately track, but then you have the oddball threads from 2018 or so, which wouldn't fall in that logic.

It's also why I wish GOG would implement a stronger version of Barefoot Essentials idiot bar, perhaps even going so far as to gently remind users before confirming their post that, "You are about to post in a very old thread. (395 days since last post) Proceed?"

Well, it happened because I was looking for some flight simulation related topics via SEARCH.
I just clicked all that looked somehow interesting without having a look at the dates, sorry.
I think the findings were sorted by relation / search match and so this was one on the upper half do page 1.