Windows drivers/app for apple/android headphones with remote

I just got a pair of Bose QC15 that have an apple-compatible mic and remote. The remote has 2 volume buttons and a play/pause button I'd like to use them on my laptop (Dell Win8.1) which has a combined headphone/mic socket. The microphone works automatically. The play/pause button has worked sometimes, but mostly doesn't. The volume buttons never have. Is there a driver that would enable the remote? Or an app that listens for a signal that comes over the mic (if that's how the apple-remote works.) There's an equivalent cable-with-remote for android - would that work on windows? (The manufactur

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