I am having exact the same issue since yesterday ?
I assume notā¦ same as nobody forced him to buy new hardware, to buy a new VR glass, etcā¦ 
Him and M$ are the only ones who know the answer to that. Think you missed the point. The point is that M$ told him to get another platform if he wants to enjoy the game after heās already spent quite a sum to do just that, which in customer support terms (my line of work) is equal to āthanks for paying, now f**k offā.
exact this was the point which he have to agreeā¦ or are you āheā ?
I donāt believe that these company spend āmillion dollarsā into the development of the PC version and then tell the users āgo awayā 
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You obviously donāt work for one of those companies. And I think youāve missed the point again: they literally told him to come back, not go away. 
xbox, I know what you mean
I focused on PC version ( environment ) and as sayād, I not believe that they would let die the PC version and force users to switch to xbox. I would not know what happens in case this would be any kind of official statementā¦
Just thought Iād add that Iām also having the same issues. Apart from I canāt open any of my Xbox Game Pass installed games - straight to gaming services.
I have tried everything but this:
Installing the KB5004476 update.
Annoyingly, it doesnāt appear on my optional updates as apparently it only appears if you have the 21H1 feature update. Therefore, Iāve had to manually download it from the Microsoft update catalogue (making sure I get the correct version which you get from settings > system > about). So far, the version that is meant for my PC, apparently isnāt for my version of my PC. Sigh.
Given that Iāve literally not played MSFS yet (bar 10 minutes when I was able to sit in a plane but didnāt have time for a flight) but have over 100 hours of downloading updates because Iāve had issues at every hurdle (I have already downloaded and installed/reinstalled 3 times), if this doesnāt work Iām never coming back to it.
I genuinely have never had to sweat so hard to open a game.
I have this regularly. I press āinstallā then run the sim again and it all seems to be OK.
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Update wouldnāt work. I literally download the correct version and apparently itās not āapplicableā to my system. Itās not already installed.
Therefore, Iāve just uninstalled every game pass game. Re-downloaded the 1.1GB MSFS base to test and what do you know, it openedā¦ and got stuck on a black screen after the initial animations then CTDs.
What a game.
Start Menu ā Add or Remove Programs ā Gaming Services ā Advanced options ā Repair
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@SamsephWooT did you get the right version of the patch from the catalog?
https://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/Search.aspx?q=KB5004476
That didnāt work unfortunately when I tried it.
Yes - thatās the update that I used.
Same here. Tried all Windows 10 versions from the catalog - the update is not applicable to your computer. Played the game a total of 3 weeks, now itās been 3 weeks since it wonāt start. Way to go, Micro$oft! What a jokeā¦
this worked for me. thanks
Latest Gaming services/MS Store/FS updates made it work for me after close to a month.
Yay! and I feel sorry for those with āexoticā installs 
I tried two ways to resolve this:
FIrst: Reset Windows store:
- No success
Second: Reset Game Services: Open Programs and Features in Windows settings, Click repair or reset, or maybe both
- Success! Next time the flight simulator started just fine.
Donāt know if it is relevant or was posted before, but can not hurt to link it:
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