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Re: Dell's XPS 15 laptop out-retinas Apple MacBook Pro

Thats cool and all but yeah Microsoft Windows handles high resolution poorly. You can jack up the DPI all you want, but a lot of other things don't follow. We see it all the time at work where people have these high resolution monitors and they complain that everything is so small. So we first try to increase the DPI so things stay clear, but for some programs it throws things off alignment, or text bleeds past buttons, or splash screens are distorted, or fonts look really off in certain programs. So sometimes we have to change the resolution to make it blurry, but these people sometimes prefer blurry over crisp and clear... its so weird. It's like those same people who have HD Cable boxes but put on the SD channel number. They don't care.

Apple has always been a leader in how they handle scale-able high resolution. That retina Macbook looks beautiful and you know what, people can still read the screen! Everything is so crisp and detailed without straining your eyes. Microsoft needs to take a page from Apple here.

If Microsoft thinks the scaling metro ui is the answer to this problem linux, and Apple will find themselves more popular from Microsoft's laziness.

If they are smart they'll do something, like they had to introduce cleartype for lcd screens, but it may not appear in any of their current operating systems. 3rd party software is generally the biggest problem here once again, but all they have to do is change their dpi to 150% then use their own software to make sure there is no problems. Software with fixed window sizes, and the operating systems variable fonts is already a failure.
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With the exception of the metro screens, the desktop scaling hasn't changed that I've seen at all, and it's still just dpi. I have Win 8 on one of my hdds.

Which Windows version are we talking about and what apps and are they XAML based or legacy apps?

Blake