In Forum: Microsoft Operating Systems
By User: TheBC
â¢Windows 9 will be ClearType-only. With CRT screens now all but obsolete and Microsoft's drive to make Windows look pretty, look for the option to switch off ClearType to be removed altogether.
Highly unlikely, since Microsoft is actually moving in the opposite direction - see: http://www.istartedsomething.com/201203 ... s-8-metro/
Precisely. Someone speaks sense.
I do believe WP8 actually has no ClearType whatsoever, being designed for high-DPI displays where such a technology is redundant. A high-DPI display's pixels are smaller than a low-DPI display's subpixels. There's no point in incurring the extra processing cost that comes with ClearType.
To be fair, I hadn't actually seen that article - I was blissfully unaware that Microsoft had given ClearType the old club on the head. I thought that with all the research and hype and Cleartype-is-going-to-bring-world-peace hoopla that it'd be cemented into the OS... turns out I was way off the mark!
By User: TheBC
â¢Windows 9 will be ClearType-only. With CRT screens now all but obsolete and Microsoft's drive to make Windows look pretty, look for the option to switch off ClearType to be removed altogether.
Highly unlikely, since Microsoft is actually moving in the opposite direction - see: http://www.istartedsomething.com/201203 ... s-8-metro/
Precisely. Someone speaks sense.
I do believe WP8 actually has no ClearType whatsoever, being designed for high-DPI displays where such a technology is redundant. A high-DPI display's pixels are smaller than a low-DPI display's subpixels. There's no point in incurring the extra processing cost that comes with ClearType.
To be fair, I hadn't actually seen that article - I was blissfully unaware that Microsoft had given ClearType the old club on the head. I thought that with all the research and hype and Cleartype-is-going-to-bring-world-peace hoopla that it'd be cemented into the OS... turns out I was way off the mark!