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HDTV Has Ruined the LCD Market
alvin67 writes "Microsoft Evangelist Pete Brown rants about the lack of pixels available in today's LCD screens: 'OK, that's it. I've had it. I want my pixels, damn it! For a while, screen resolution has been going up on our desktop displays. The trend was good, as I've always wanted the largest monitor with the highest DPI that I could afford. I mean, I used to have one of the first hulking 17-inch CRTs on my desk. I later upgraded to a 21-inch job that was so huge, that if you didn't stick it in a corner, it took up the whole desk. It was flat-panel, though and full of pixels. It cost me around $1,100 at the time."
After some years of improvements, we've regressed, in Brown's opinion: "At the rate we were going for a while, we should have had twice or three times the DPI on a 24- or 23-inch screen. But nooo."
Windows XP is running on 80% of the PC's and has 32 pixel icons that demand a lo-res display. The average retail of a PC is US$500, again demanding a lo-res display. Sorry that your own company ruined the PC industry by illegally monopolizing it and then failing to move it forward. App developers have to design for XP, even 10 years later, because that's when the PC got frozen in time. The lack of progress should not be a mystery to a Microsoft employee but the fact that it is should scare all of your customers. Or at least those whose PC's are working today, not rebooting their anti-virus scanners.