I keep posting because your pointless drivel continues to amuse, and because replying to your nonsense takes little effort.

Fellow sysadmins unite! (and browse gizmodo instead of doing work)

In some cases, they have. File Explorer, for instance, is fully DPI-aware and doesn’t blur (at least on displays running the system DPI — GDI apps still don’t have the ability to change their rendering based on GDI on-the-fly, largely as another artifact to their general archaicness, so if you pass a window to a…

Further confirmation that Gizmodo writers don’t seem to understand how DPI settings work. Fewer pixels or tiny text? Really?

I don’t know too much about some of the other frameworks, but WPF/XAML at least is entirely vector-based already.

I don’t know what you think you’ve brought forth evidence of, but I must not have noticed it. You just presented a pointless google search and named off some random Microsoft products. I still don’t have a clue what you’re actually babbling on about.

Well, that’s the neat thing about the Universal apps platform. The Maps/etc apps have the same code between mobile and desktop, so basically any advantage one platform may have is also provided in the other. Offline maps for windows phone means offline maps for desktop. etc.

for what it’s worth, I haven’t used it myself in a long time, since I wrote an app for screenshot capture/sharing myself a while back that i’ve been using ever since.

There’s nothing wrong with the OS itself DPI-wise. Developers are also free to use a number of different frameworks, including much more modern ones like WPF which have absolutely zero issues with DPI/resolution. Microsoft actively encourages this. Actually getting people to switch, however, when the OS itself also…

Nevermind that OSX’s GUI architecture is a lot newer and likely higher-level in nature (and thus easier to make changes to) and the fact that Apple doesn’t give a shit about backwards compatibility... It doesn’t seem like you fully understand the issue at hand.

That sounds nice and idealistic, but I think the point is, altruism is not an effective driving mechanism for conservation.

Not support the vast majority of apps in existence? okay, sure, whatever floats your boat.

really? that’s your problem? Sorry, that can’t really even qualify as an issue. The extra overhead and code complexity introduced by whatever solution they’d come up with for ensuring apps crossing display boundaries scale correctly on both sides would almost certainly not be worth it.

While I still haven’t really gotten into the swing of actually talking to it, it’s still quite nice as a quick search/task/launch system. If nothing else, the Reminders feature is especially handy.

I was testing a number of apps using each scaling mode earlier in my win10 testing, and found that overall I preferred the fuzzy scaling method, as even though it wasn’t BREAKING anything in the apps I tested, apps scaled using the old method still just looked...bad. Inconsistent sizing of random elements,…

Basically, GDI is beyond fixing, the fuzzy scaling for GDI *works* and doesn’t break anything, and newer UI platforms don’t have the problem in the first place.

The problem is, I believe, GDI is such a low-level system that any on-the-fly changes to rendering would likely upset the operation of the application currently utilizing it. It’s not like .NET/WPF which uses vector objects and is so heavily abstracted from the actual rendering surface that it doesn’t even notice the…

Basically. Really, they could pop that image fidelity into existence, IF the UI framework were designed in such a way where that was possible.

Ignoring the fact that this is obvious trollbait, what sucks about it? The part where apps scale automatically as they move across display boundaries, such that you won’t likely even notice it happening? The part where it makes the environment comfortable to use with any combination of displays, without any of them…

One thing that’s appeared fairly clear to me to begin with is that the folks doing these reviews are not power users. Half of the articles they post have things in them that make me facepalm, but as long as they’re not spreading actual misinformation it’s not a huge deal. Articles like this one are annoying, but it’s…