[QUOTE=GoDong-DK;45767369]HDPI screens are (slowly) getting more common now, though, developers might make the move (start using the API that was introduced in... Vista?).[/QUOTE]
Interestingly, MS have actually supported a method of making resolution independent UIs since Windows 95. It's just that because nobody could really test it, applications written using that method break at higher resolutions.
Vista was where they changed everything and made apps specifically opt into resolution independence, with apps that didn't opt in getting scaled by the DWM (And the broken scaling when that's disabled). Unfortunately to remain compatible with XP, they exempted certain scale factors from the automatic scaling (So something like 125% scale still gets given to the apps that can't handle it). I think it was with 8 they moved entirely to an Apple style method (Where if an doesn't mark itself as compatible, it [B]always[/B] gets the 100% UI scale, and is then scaled by the DWM)
The problem is with apps like Photoshop, where they tell the OS they're resolution independent, then actually go ahead and render independent on the DPI (Which is the exact opposite meaning)
[IMG_thumb]http://i.imgur.com/0Sv9IwZ.jpg[/IMG_thumb]
Short of blacklisting the app, Microsoft can't do anything to fix that. The best they can do is hound developers on [URL="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dn469266.aspx"]how to do it correctly[/URL], or push newer frameworks like Direct2D/WPF that can handle it correctly by default (Which they don't seem to be really doing, WPF wasn't even updated for Windows 8)
[QUOTE=Puresabe;45771751]I wonder why Microsoft is already working on Windows 9 when Windows 8.1 was well recieved for the most part ? Isn't it a bit too soon ?[/QUOTE]
Microsoft are shifting to a Apple style frequent updates model with Windows, with major updates (like 8.1) happening once a year.
[url]http://redmondmag.com/articles/2013/06/03/microsoft-2014-roadmap.aspx[/url]
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