I think this is great. I live in emacs and a bit of bash. emacs on windows works, but, does not feel right. Everything is a little wonky (the path slash thing, the unix find and aspell tools etc). If this makes emacs feel like it does on linux native or mac, I will seriously consider buying a windows laptop. Well done new guy in charge of Microsoft!
It's true, I always have to install some bundle that includes R and LaTeX along with Emacs, otherwise it's a nightmare installing all the different programs individually and making them work together. But still for me the main problem of Emacs on Windows is that the fonts look blurry and horrible.
