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Don't forget the horrors of Windows high DPI scaling.

Poor, blurry Google Chrome.

Edit: I was inspired to look into it a little more, and it looks like Chrome does have high-DPI support: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/chrom...

It has to be enabled by a registry key and seems to break Chrome's notification tray icon.

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Win8 desktop is definitely better than Win7. The worst thing is that the scaling (and touch) breaks all the non-standard GUI kits.

XMind, for example, has icons that you can hardly see on my Pro2.

Unity3D's GUI scales up correctly but there are a whole load of fixed-sized panels that become too large to be useful.

Chrome's font rendering is still screwed even on low DPI windows machines, especially if Google Web Fonts are used.

I was actually thinking about asking that, I have no idea how things will look at such high resolutions. I do use Windows on a Macbook Air 13" and it's pretty much retina to me but I'm getting old, I don't think I'll recognise a pixel anymore during the upcoming years. :)

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