2..PC....now that microsoft are building asio into the OS
That's news to me, and doesn't make any sense. ASIO only exists as a way of
bypassing Windows.
It didn't make sense to me either, though I didn't read through the detail.
More likely I think is that MS are improving the drivers within Windows to make ASIO 'unnecessary', at least with class-compliant devices, much as Linux and I believe MacOS have done for a long time.. How well that'll work out is another matter. We'll see I guess.