[timerickson]

Smart move by the Office for Mac team getting this out in a timely manner. Wouldn't it be nice if the other teams at Microsoft pushed updates and features just as quickly?

Now Adobe just needs to get their game together. The Creative Suite are exactly the type of applications used by early adopting Mac users that could use a retina display.

[josephcooney]

What teams inside MS do you think are dragging their feet?

[wells-riley]

Agreed. Apps like Illustrator, InDesign, Flash, and AfterEffects would be amazing with Retina compatibility.

I think everyone is anxiously awaiting an updated Photoshop, but I'm just not sure how they'd do it. I've been thinking about it for a few weeks, but it's a pretty major problem. Ps is all about mapping an image to exact pixels, but that's not practical on a Retina display. A 1x image would appear too small (or pixelated, just as it is now, at 200%), and 2x images would be too small at 100% (Retina actual size) to do pixel perfect detail work.

Maybe there's an obvious solution I'm overlooking.

[dougbarrett]

I use Photoshop mainly for front-end web dev. The most common use of it is just slicing up images to be used, having it work on a retina display would be great. It's so common for cutlines to become blurry the more you zoom out on an image, so I think that having it be 1 to 1 pixel density is a must have. I don't believe that since the pixel density is higher in the images, that the actual controls can't be retina friendly. Isn't that how Final Cut works on a Retina Display? I don't have either, but I remember Apple stating "In this window, you are seeing a full un-altered 1080p frame, along with the controls"

[mh-]

>The most common use of it

I'm sure you meant this, but I wanted to clarify that (I assume) you meant your most common use case.

[dougbarrett]

Yes, my most common use. I realize that Photoshop is an extremely powerful program, but if Adobe releases their next version with the option to display the image in a "fine detail mode" it would be a huge help for how I, and I'm sure how a lot of front-end developers use it.

[gizmo686]

When you need pixel precision, you generally would zoom beyond 100% on non-retina displays. The only thing that happens with retina photoshop is that at you need to zoom in farther to get the same detail. There is a potential problem for people designing for non-retina screens, as it would appear lower quality on the actual device; But this could be worked around with existing pixilation tools, or a more general option of rendering the image at a given pixel density relative to the display.