Pete Brown from Microsoft delivering a special A3E keynote on the Future of Audio from the Microsoft perspective.

Particular highlights are a mutli client and application, MIDI API. A refocusing of the audio stack towards low latency rather than battery life and control over isolation of audio processing onto a physical core.

Also AudioGraph looks like an interesting addition to the Windows development environment.

Additionally FLAC and ALAC codecs will also be supported out of the box.

Windows 10 will be available July 29 2015.

More details online.