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Time and effort. You would need to take people off of the main OS to make a 16-bit Virtual Machine that would run every time a 16-bit app was launched. (Thats what they do with 32-bit programs, and for the most part, it works).
16-bit Windows programs can not be run under any version of Vista. You would need to install a Virtual Machine to run an OS (98 SE; i knew i kept those disks for a reason 
) to run those programs.
Dos games can be run via DosBox almost perfectly, so there isn't much of a push to support them any longer.
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