It sounds like the Windows approach of using a noise suppression filter might generally be a good idea. It's likely Microsoft has seen many more laptops and desktops with this same problem.
Although I can't help but think that we could still fix this by limiting the volume more (or finding some gain setting that is on but shouldn't be). Having headphone volume that doesn't go high enough is already a common problem plenty of people would be used to. But the important thing is they won't report that as a bug, so maybe that's better.
It sounds like the Windows approach of using a noise suppression filter might generally be a good idea. It's likely Microsoft has seen many more laptops and desktops with this same problem.
Although I can't help but think that we could still fix this by limiting the volume more (or finding some gain setting that is on but shouldn't be). Having headphone volume that doesn't go high enough is already a common problem plenty of people would be used to. But the important thing is they won't report that as a bug, so maybe that's better.