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The number of help requests I'm getting from Windows 8 users trying to use MIDI programs is growing day by day.
I've done some research and tests on the arguments, but the available documentation is really "poor" (confirming my feeling about Microsoft intention to drop it out).
This is what I've find out.

My brand new Zopo ZP300+ smartphone has really low GPS sensitivity. This makes satellites fix a really long task, even helping it with apps like FasterGPS.

Latest ROM (October 2012) improved it a little bit, but the issue seems to be hardware related.

As a long time Aardwark user, now that Firefox 14 is out I'm still missing an official version that works with it.

Well, the original Aardvark 3.0 works perfectly in latest Firefox version, but it can't be installed because its manifest (a file inside the addin that says FF which versions that addin is compatible with) reports FF 3.6.* as max version.
Editing this info is not so difficult, but some inexperienced users can't do it.

VirtualMIDISynth 1.4.0 was finally released today.
It's a long waited release, preceeded by a long list of betas.

The main new feature of 1.4.x branch is the addition of 64 bits MIDI clients support, such as new DAWs (Digital Audio Workstations) like Cakewalk Sonar X1, MediaPlayer classic x64 and all .NET AnyCPU-compiled softwares (which are JIT compiled to x64 on x64 OS).

The configurator is also deeply changed: a new tabbed interface now has lot of new options like:

Today website migration has completed successfully and the new one is up and running.

A lot of new features have been added, starting from the possibility for users to register accounts and being notified about CoolSoft updates.

In a few days a forum will start too; this way most popular projects (VirtualMIDISynth first) will have a reserved (and clean) space to report bugs, suggest features and so on.
That should be better than hundreds of comments, hard to search and follow.

31 Jan 2012 UPDATE

This version is outdated and not available anymore.
See here for the latest version.

As a long time Aardwark user, now that Firefox 10 is out I'm still missing an official version that works with it.

When compiling a .NET application you have three available choices for the Platform target parameter:

X86: The code will run in 32bit mode both on x86 and on x64 OS.

X64: Executable will run only in 64bit mode and on x64 OS, no way to run it on x86 OS.

AnyCPU: The same executable will run in 32bit mode on x86 OS and in 64bit mode on x64 OS. It's up to the .NET framework runtime to choose how to JIT compile it to native code.

28 Dec 2011 UPDATE

This version is outdated and not available anymore.
See here for the latest version.

As a long time Aardwark user, now that Firefox 8 is out (and FF7 is at beta stage) I'm still missing an official version that works with it.

07 Nov 2011 UPDATE

This version is outdated and not available anymore.
See here for the latest version.

As a long time Aardwark user, now that Firefox 7 is out (and FF7 is at beta stage) I'm still missing an official version that works with it.