When we posted our look at Windows 8.1 earlier this month, we covered a lot that was new to the OS, and admittedly, there was a lot more packed in than we originally anticipated. Despite that, we ...
A few years ago, at work, I had a tertiary 30" 4k monitor (~148 DPI). The scaling issues on Windows, at that time, were so terrible that I basically turned that thing off except when I had to test my ...
Super high resolution displays are becoming more common on Windows laptops, but densely packing pixels into a small screen comes with some trade-offs. The resulting image can be great—text looks ...
Windows 10 Anniversary Update (AU), also known as version 1607, brings a number of new features, lots of fixes and a few major changes to Microsoft’s operating system. Among those changes and fixes, ...
I feel maybe I've been sheltered from DPI scaling issues on Windows. For the last few years I've been using a 14" laptop which I often couple with a 24" external monitor (both 1920 x 1080 resolution).
There are some things about Windows 8 for which it's unfairly maligned. I actually think, for instance, that Windows 8 has lots of promise as the only OS that offers true convergence between ...
If you've ever used Windows on a higher DPI display and some older Win32 apps in particular, then you can definitely relate to the issue of proper scaling. Since the company's own crisp-display ...
It's been confirmed by Microsoft that Windows 10 will work at a lower resolution than both Windows 8 and 8.1 when it is released this summer. At the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) in ...