Many applications rely on MIDI for music synthesis, but much of the MIDI support in Windows has been unchanged for decades. Now, Microsoft is finally addressing this with a robust new framework.

Windows 11 is rolling out the biggest update to MIDI since the musical communication format was first released in 1983.

The original version of Microsoft Windows, which was introduced in 1985. Windows 1.0 was a DOS application that provided a crude windowing environment. Its "MS-DOS Executive" was the launching pad ...

However, marketers at Microsoft recognized that the name "Windows" would resonate more with consumers, as it succinctly described the software's defining feature: the ability to manage multiple ...