Vista Aero: High DPI
One of the compelling new features of Vista is something that is largely getting ignored by the general computer press and public at large. Vista Aero supports high DPI graphics modes. The idea is that you can have your high resolution screen and not have tiny fonts and ugly, misplaced graphics at the same time. XP had the ability to scale applications, but this always looked horrible because the parts of the applications that were bitmaps were kept small while the text and borders grew in size. We describe this problem in detail in this LCD resolution article.
A key improvement of the Vista design is that it will also increase the size of the bitmap icons to match the rest of the interface. This keeps everything looking nice and clean, but those bitmap icons will look fuzzy when that happens. It's a tradeoff, but it's encouraging more people to use high DPI settings on high resolution LCDs.
One other improvement is that because of Vista's changes, developers and software manufacturers have taken note of the importance of high DPI and are improving their applications to properly support it. Before Vista, this change wasn't really taking place.
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