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Why are all of the images 1,680px × 1,050px then scaled down in the image tag?

Also, every version of Skype I use gets progressively worse. Facebook integration! Status updates from your friends! We moved feature A to menu B. Just make my calls not fucking suck.

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Given that the Windows 8 version is a complete UI rewrite (it has to be) there isn't much to make worse, I guess :-)

They are 1,366x768 resized to 600x350 for me, which I guess could ha started as a retina thing.

It would indeed be hilarious if Microsoft mangled web-standards to comply with Apple's broken non-standard additions.

The circle of incompetence would be complete.

This is not a Windows blog, it's a Skype one. I find it entirely plausible that someone on their web team has been sold on resizing to 50% in the browser, which is one suggested way to engage Apple's spare pixels.

edit: Also, even if it were a Microsoft blog, I still wouldn't consider it an impossibility. There are devices running Windows Phone with Retina-comparable pixel densities, so Microsoft must have considered taking advantage of the super-resolution capabilities in a compatible manner. I don't know if they have done so, but it would be silly if they didn't use any of that spare hardware capability.

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