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They attempted to abuse/reuse a in-house technology called VAIL. There were not just some compatibility issues; but battery life and performance were just bad.

>>gjsman+(OP)
Virtualized Application Interface Layer… did anyone internally refer to this as “WINE for Windows”? ;)

From a quick web search, VAIL was supposed to only be used as a fallback for when RAIL (i.e. a cloud streaming service for your Win32 apps) wasn’t available. So I assume it didn’t necessarily have to be “good” — it was the “safe mode” of Win32 compatibility, per se. It just had to be there as a rare last resort.

But was RAIL any good? Did it even get built?