Many applications rely on MIDI for music synthesis, but much of the MIDI support in Windows has been unchanged for decades.

In the Windows Insider Preview, Microsoft is now providing Windows MIDI Services, a new MIDI stack with MIDI 2.0 support. In the announcement of the Windows preview, Microsoft discusses Windows MIDI ...

For those unfamiliar, MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) was first introduced in 1983 as a standard for synchronising synthesisers and drum machines in electronic music. It enables users to ...

Windows 1.0 didn't exactly blow the industry away, but it laid the groundwork for Microsoft's future success.

First developed in 1981 by computer scientist Chase Bishop, the software project that would eventually become Windows actually started life under a far wonkier name: "Interface ...