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Windows 8 and Screen Resolution: WXGA Still Most Popular

Posted by timothy on from the how-tight-are-your-pixels? dept.

jones_supa writes "The Building Windows 8 blog comes up with a detailed post explaining the improved support of Windows 8 regarding different screen sizes, resolutions and pixel densities. Early on, the Windows team explored an inch-based scaling system, but found out that bitmaps would look blurry when scaled to unpredictable sizes. They ended up choosing three predefined scale percentages: 100%/140%/180%. The article goes on pondering the best solutions to make each app look good on different screens. Also shown: the distribution of resolutions being used today with Windows 7, 1366x768 having a huge lead at 42%."

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  1. 1366x768 by CyberK · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Also known as the cheap laptop screen.

    1. Re:1366x768 by Electricity+Likes+Me · · Score: 5, Insightful

      More to life yes, but I suspect in marketing to the general consumer "1080" is now a secret codeword. Hollywood in reference to HDTV and Blu-Ray throws the term "1080p" around as the thing you want. Hell, it "feels" nice when I think about it. So for the average consumer it certainly sounds good.

      It's just you, and other posters are right: for general purpose computing, it's not really so good because in working with documents, web-pages etc. everything we do is much more orientated towards "tall" resolutions (i.e. we work with portrait documents, not landscape).

      One of my brothers runs 3 monitors and he has 1 24" screen configured specifically in a portrait configuration for this very reason.

  2. Stop 16:9 displays! by ArchieBunker · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Please stop it with these 16:9 ratio displays. I can't stand having a two foot wide desktop with 6 inches of vertical height.

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