Incredible news!
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It is, as we see PC users without an audio interface on a daily basis with troubles. I’ve always had an audio interface but I can see that for full in the box work or while on a train etc it would be very useful, without having to download extra software like asio4all.
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For this (and the new MIDI Services development) you can thank @Psychlist1972 from Microsoft, who sometimes shows up in this forum and on Gearspace.
In many ways, Pete has represented the interests of us audio folks within the Microsoft community.
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And it’s only taken 30 years!
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Better late than never, right?
Do not get overexcited. You can still not do anything with it without steinberg and it is intended for a specific USB class only. No doubt a good thing and it might be good for people with badly supported low cost interfaces that need to use asio4all today.
Haha, no I won’t.
I cannot conceive of using Cubase (or similar) on a laptop, although I know plenty of folks do. I’ll stick with my RME interface and it’s drivers.
And yes, I used to use Cubase on a 600 by 400 pixel monitor!
And that’s exactly what its for. I don’t think anyone is going to run and uninstall their RME drivers to go with one ‘built in’ to the system, but the guys using their built in laptop hardware now have more choices.
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Here’s to hope. 
Hope for aggregate devices with internal resampling.
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WASAPI works well for this on Windows already. The issue is that some developers (like Steinberg) refuse to support it.
Cubase isn’t the only one, though. It’s just the most prominent one.
Even Pro Tools supports WASAPI on Windows, so the performance with the on-board sound card is about as good as a budget Stereo Audio Interface using ASIO at reasonable Buffer Levels.
This has been the case for 19-20 years.
I am not sure if this will work with laptop sound cards, or just devices plugged in via USB/TB.