[pjmlp]

Proper AOT compilation and better handling of low level COM APIs.

NGEN never was anything more than a good enough start-up accelerator, and while .NET supports COM, is cannot directly use COM like APIs like DirectX without some extra help in wrapping.

Every time .NET teams try to improve these scenarios, usually Windows Dev team comes around and steals the show, apparently too much .NET isn't welcomed in some units.

This is how you end up with Longhorn and Midori being sabotaged, or .NET Native being dropped.