The work required of developers to support arbitrary DPI is more or less impossible. No system anywhere has ever managed it. Intel GPUs are underpowered and ha

The work required of developers to support arbitrary DPI is more or less impossible. No system anywhere has ever managed it. Intel GPUs are underpowered and have been for a long time. Their drivers are also full of bugs and odd edge cases. Intel saw iGPUs as a value-add for makers of cheap systems and treated them as such. That's a major point of Sinofsky's piece: graphics ended up being important and Intel knee-capped themselves and all their partners by failing to understand that. He gives an example: You can't put a discrete GPU into that 10" laptop or Intel will kill you by removing your discounts and kickbacks, making your laptop more expensive than your competitors.