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re: Windows 8 on MacBook Pro with Retina display

BK — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 15:51:19 GMT

Looking at the screenshot I think doable is the right word. Thanks for the screenshot.

re: Windows 8 on MacBook Pro with Retina display

Tony Schreiner [MSFT] — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 15:54:15 GMT

BK, good question. At least with the settings I use this is a snag, even when you RDP to a Windows 8 machine.

The target machine doesn't adjust its DPI by default, of course, so you're left in "tiny land". If I hadn't turned on XP-style scaling this might not be the case (e.g. you may get a blurry DWM upscaled experience), but since this isn't the configuration I advocate I'm not going to switch to it and say "yeah, all is good".

In other words, it's doable, but small. In certain server environments this may be a benefit. Here's a representative screenshot that shows IE chrome at 144 DPI, IE content at 196 DPI (200% zoom), and a remote desktop session at 96 DPI. And by DPI I mean what the application thinks.

tonyschr.net/.../RemoteDesktop.png

re: Windows 8 on MacBook Pro with Retina display

BK — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 03:33:35 GMT

How well does the remote desktop works on MBP w/Retina with Windows 8? Let's say I want to to RDP into Windows 7 and XP machine.

re: Windows 8 on MacBook Pro with Retina display

Tony Schreiner [MSFT] — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 02:59:43 GMT

AK, no I did a normal a Boot Camp install, partitioning the majority for Windows 8.

re: Windows 8 on MacBook Pro with Retina display

AK — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 14:48:35 GMT

Tony,

Thanks for write up. When you say clean install, did you completely removed OSX and installed Windows 8 or you created seperate partition and installed on it.

Is it possible to remove macosx and install Windows 8 as the only OS?

re: Windows 8 on MacBook Pro with Retina display

Tony Schreiner [MSFT] — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 12:43:29 GMT

SD-F1, thanks for the additional info! I can confirm that the beta NVidia drivers fix the IE10 scrolling issue and after using them for about a week I haven't had any other issues.

I haven't yet tried the Boot Camp Control Panel fix to avoid UAC elevation, but it sounds like it works. Readers should know that they'll either have to acquire sed from somewhere or simply manually tweak the manifest file. Hopefully Apple fixes this in a future update before Oct. 26.

Ejay, since 95% of my time is spent in Windows 8 I have not yet tried Fusion or Parallels.

re: Windows 8 on MacBook Pro with Retina display

Eljay — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 11:46:49 GMT

Thank you for the MBP w/Retina + Boot Camp + Window 8 assessment.

Any experience with MBP w/Retina + Fusion 5 + Windows 8?

Or experience with MBP w/Retina + Parallels 8 + Windows 8?

re: Windows 8 on MacBook Pro with Retina display

SD-F1 — Sun, 02 Sep 2012 14:48:18 GMT

To Fix the Bootcamp control Panel type Issues:

blogs.microsoft.co.il/.../running-the-boot-camp-control-panel-applet-from-windows-8-on-macbook-pro.aspx

The Beta Nvidia Drivers tend to improve some of your Known issues.

Web Cam works, tested and confirmed.

re: IE9 Platform Preview Available - with SVG!

No.1 — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 23:56:38 GMT

Hi Tony,

Nice info here. But I have a question regarding IE7/8 - Is there any way to customize the Information Bar such as it appears with my content whenever required?

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