WPF has been providing a feature that people wanted for a very long time. Have you ever wonder why a screen with a very high resolution will give you application and text that are too small to use and read properly. If you take a look at printed material, no matter how big the medium is or how high the dpi used for printing, a 10 point text will always appear as a 10 point text, the higher dpi will just make it appear so much smoother and nicer. WPF set out to mimic that, thus a WPF application will always appear the same size no matter where you view it. This is achieved by making the graphic display truly device independent. A 10cm line will appear as a 10cm line no matter how big the screen or how high the resolution.
Windows 7 will finally bring this feature to the masses, you don’t need to run a WPF application to get this benefit for text. And I hope that this will also be true for other elements in the Windows. If this is true, that Vaio P will definitely be good to ship in Windows 7, since the current one under Vista shows text that are way too small to read properly (cause Sony choose to put a high resolution screen on a 8.9” screen).
