[tux10]

This is one of the biggest reason I just can't move away from my regular DPI laptop. Every time I have tried a HiDPI display with Windows it is painful. Text looks great but icons and widgets look like shit. Things get better with every new version of Windows but Microsoft have been promising true DPI independence since Vista yet things are still crap.

[ZoFreX]

Back in Windows 3.1 and Windows 95 I remember this stuff actually working quite well, a lot of people I knew were running Windows with non-default DPI settings. As newer versions came out, and also as people started using third party GUI toolkits more and more, things started getting less consistent.

[kolme]

I think those old settings only concern fonts. Icons and other pixel-measured things would still look ridiculously small (making it a mess of small-things-with-big-fonts).

[tanzam75]

Windows was originally designed to be DPI-independent.

After all, Windows 1.0 had to run on 320x200 CGA adapters -- complete with non-square pixels.

[philliphaydon]

I run Windows 8.1 on a 15" MBP/r and it looks great.

Stop whinging about non-existent problems.