No, I hate Win10 not just because of corporate style that implies we have to conform, that we ought to conform. However, for the moment I hate Win 10 because Cortana holds the default device open that MCISendString API should use, meaning that recording using MCISendString does not work on Win10, instead producing a .WAV file of 44 bytes long containing RIFF$ WAVEfmt # # # D¬ #±# # # data