$36 XP Easy On The Wallet, Hard On The Eyes?
from the artificial-barriers dept
theodp writes "Reading on-screen is hard on the eyes, wrote Bill Gates, stressing the need for higher screen resolution to prevent irritating and distracting computer users. But Gates' concerns apparently don't extend to those who are only able to cough up $36 for the Hindi version of Windows XP Starter Edition, which features crippled display resolution, limits the number of open windows or running programs to three, and provides a Taj Mahal screensaver in lieu of home networking and multi-account capabilities." Not sure that's really true... At a lower resolution, everything should appear larger, meaning it may be easier on the eyes. Of course, this might, in part, be a response to some of the geographical goofs Microsoft has made in the past, including angering many in India over its world map, to the point that some versions of Microsoft software were banned.
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800x600 Resolution problems
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Chinese/Japanese/Korean ideograms look terrible at low spatial resolutions. They look like an endless row of # signs.
It's not the size of the letters, it's the size of the pixels. The same amount of script on a higher resolution display is MUCH more readable for non-Latin characters.
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Reading this submission made me realize how hard it is to read the italicized text. ;-)
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