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I also noticed, booting using a linux live usb, that the microphone works on the live environment (for me)
So I don't think it's a hardware related issue. Seems to be driver / windows related. The fix is probably possible through a driver update but the latest driver does not fix it. I tried to conpletely unistall it & reinstall with no success...