8.1 welcomes "extra large" DPI scaling improvements

Computer shop news: We have entered the era of fierce advancement of PC hardware specifications, even the display is also driven by mobile devices into the 4K Ultra HD resolution, but to deal with the text under the ultra-high DPI Display and application scaling also requires great support from the operating system. In a new blog post, Microsoft finally announced some improvements in Windows 8.1 for DPI scaling. The Extreme Windows blog notes that Windows 8.1 will offer a new "Extra Large" option to allow the display to scale text and other items by 200%.

The new "Oversized" scaling option. Win8 can only scale up to 150%.

Different DPI display devices can also set the zoom ratio separately.

Also, if you have multiple PC monitors on your desktop, and each display device has a different DPI. In this case, Windows 8.1 can also use its own per-display DIP scaling level.

Windows 8 application developers can also use Microsoft's APIs to have their apps display and use the "Extra Size" option on high DPI screens.