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Windows 8 Has Scaling Issues On High-PPI Displays

Posted by timothy on from the to-be-fair-there's-not-much-room-there dept.

crookedvulture writes "High-PPI displays are becoming increasingly popular on tablets and notebooks, but Windows 8 may not be ready for them. On a 13" notebook display with a 1080p resolution, the RTM version of Win8 scales up some desktop UI elements nicely. However, there are serious issues with Metro, which produces tiles and text that are either too small or too large depending on the PPI setting used. That setting, by the way, is a simple on/off switch that tells the OS to 'make everything bigger.' Web browsing is particularly problematic, with Internet Explorer 10 introducing ugly rendering artifacts when scaling pages in both Metro and desktop modes. Clearly, there's work to be done on the OS side to properly support higher pixel densities."

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  1. Device Independence? by Jeremiah+Cornelius · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    What? Haven't figured this one out, Ballmer?

    Bet it renders just fine on the "Surface" tablets.

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    1. Re:Device Independence? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      No. THey think PPI is when I go peepee in your eye.