[musicalentropy]

Wrong. You still have a lot more software for Windows than for Mac OS X (thanks synthedit and the Apple developer fee), and latency has never been an issue here thanks to ASIO. Moreover, a lot of people amateur or professional uses Windows software to create and record music, such as Reaper, Cubase, Ableton Live, Pro Tools etc.

Anyway, it's true that is a shame that you need to use a third developer party SDK as a standard to have the lowest latency available on Windows, when you have CoreAudio on Mac OS X.

But you know, developing music hardware/software for Apple has a lot of serious/ridiculous issues too, mainly about compatibility between Mac OS X versions, developing tools broken after an update, signing apps, the whole Apple Store thing, sandboxing AU plug-ins... That's why I'd like Microsoft to perform better here.