Because it makes life a lot easier for developers, and nearly all monitors can do that resolution
i know sam
but the emphasis i on "nearly". i think its a bit stupid you plugin your screen and the OS is saying NOPE like in sweneys case. its a bit like the opposite it should be in my eyes.
however, i run well with my win7 and i guess i will look at win9 at the earliest.
same same here. heard only good news about win9. hopefully it gets out beginning of 2015 (when germany is world soccer champion since half a year.)
pff windows 9 we will see i have to say that windows 8 is pretty good apart from metro crap by long times the most stable windows os i ever had
i cannot remember a crash and i have it bit longer than 1 year now