Unless you were specifically looking for information on it, you may have thought Microsoft Flight had been killed given how quiet things had been. Instead, the development team has continued to give occasional updates on its status through its official website and now it's turning to gamers to beta test the game beginning next month.
Those who are interested will need a Windows Live ID and an Xbox Live/Games for Windows Live Gamertag to sign up. Not everyone who applies will get in, and the information you're asked to provide isn't especially specific, so it doesn't sound as if it matters how fast your computer is or what beta testing experience you have. The beta will begin sometime in January; testers will be bound to an NDA and therefore disallowed from sharing any impressions, screenshots, or anything else.
Microsoft Flight was one of three games, along with Fable III and Age of Empires Online, announced last year as an indication that Microsoft still supports PC gaming. Many would say those three games don't prove anything, and the way Games for Windows has been downplayed since its Marketplace was integrated with Xbox.com would only back that up.
Regardless, development on Flight is clearly progressing. And while the game still doesn't have any sort of a release date, at least some gamers will have the opportunity to play it before long.
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