> I have also heard that Microsoft put lower priority on the x86 emulation layer, because they felt like if it was really good, developers would have no incenti

> I have also heard that Microsoft put lower priority on the x86 emulation layer, because they felt like if it was really good, developers would have no incentive to make native compiles. It's not surprising to me, Microsoft has always prided on having backwards compatibility as much as possible so this is in character for them