It is very obvious that the people in Redmond are so busy "improving" (as they call it) Windows for people that play games, send pictures and music over the internet and surf and e-mail.
This leaves us poor critical timing people behind and I will not be at all surprised if soon we will need either another OS (Linux will not do, it is not REAL real time either) for these purposes.
Maybe the solution will be a box with circuitry that receive data transmitted when Windows feel like it and synchronize it up.

Erik