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> Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2019 14:35:15 +0100
> From: Thomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de>
> 
> 1.) Any hints where to find up to date binaries for a aspell, or hunspell e.g. any of the supported spell
> checkers?
> 
> I did only find very old precompiled binaries and nothing "official".

Did you try the precompiled binary from here:

  https://sourceforge.net/projects/ezwinports/files/

> 2.) Windows spell check API
> Windows 8 onwards has an integrated spell checker API.

That's the API, but are there any providers bundled with Windows?

> What would be the best solution to integrate this into flyspell?
> 
> Is it possible to call COM from lisp code?

Not that I know of, but maybe someone will find a way.