# Professional Edition?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/professional-edition/10216>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [October 31, 1999, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/professional-edition/10216 "1999-10-31T01:20:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![tanstaafl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba8739/32.png) [@tanstaafl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tanstaafl)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 1999, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/professional-edition/10216/1 "1999-10-31T01:20:00Z")

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To avoid the trick-or-treaters this evening I hopped down to the mall to grab dinner from the food court. Later, I wandered through the software store there and noticed:  
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Microsoft Flight Simulator 2000

Professional Edition  
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Professional Edition? _Professional Edition?_ OK, I can see (maybe) a professional edition of a productivity package like a word processor, something that may have features useful for an office that aren’t needed for a game. But, _Flight Simulator_? I could see a “Gold Edition” or an “Enhanced Edition” or even a “We added two features that should have been in the original so we can charge $20 extra Edition”, but why call it a Professional Edition?

I work for an airline and I can assure you we aren’t planning on replacing the pilot training simulators with M$ Flight Simulator anytime soon. What were they thinking?

(Yeah, I know. It’s meaningless. But, that’s what the topic’s for, right?)

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“Drink your coffee! Remember, there are people sleeping in China.”

Dennis Matheson — [dennis@mountaindiver.com](mailto:dennis@mountaindiver.com)  
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**Author:** ![tanstaafl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba8739/32.png) [@tanstaafl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tanstaafl)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 1999, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/professional-edition/10216/2 "1999-10-31T01:22:00Z")

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> OK, I can see (maybe) a professional edition of a productivity package like a word processor, something that may have features useful for an office that aren’t needed for a game.

Make that “…that aren’t needed by a home user.” That’ll teach me to post after my third beer.

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**Author:** ![Satan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Satan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satan)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 1999, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/professional-edition/10216/3 "1999-10-31T03:56:00Z")

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Maybe it’s for people who want to be a _professional_ pilot?

:: shrugs ::

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Yer pal,  
Satan