> But even still, the user had asked how to change the size of text, not the UI.

This seems like nitpicking to try and get a gotcha moment. Most normal people who think text is too small at an OS level want the whole display scaled, not just the text. They don’t know to ask for display scaling though, that isn’t a normal thing grandma knows about.

Are they? The reason for larger text for me is that I cant read it. It really does not mean I want who ui bigger, unless it is text being displayed.

Why do you think most people want scalling overall being changed? It does not make sense to me. Contemporary UIs are wasting so much space, there is no reason to double everything. Just the small font you used inside those giant empty spaces.

Usually if the text is too small to read, the UI elements are too small to read as well.

I ran into this with VS Code. I have a giant monitor and wanted to increase the text side to avoid eye strain. I made the editor text bigger, but then struggled to see the text in the sidebar or other areas of the UI. Scaling for the app worked much better and it solved the problem everywhere in the app. It also still looks normal, increasing text size alone looked ridiculous, imo.

> struggled to see the text in the sidebar or other areas of the UI.

So your fist step didn't increase all text size, that's all, different from the OS setting that does

UI scaling would proportionally increase the size of a button. Text scaling would only increase the text in a button

> Usually if the text is too small to read, the UI elements are too small to read as well.

Definitely not for me. I need larger text, not larger everything.

Even in your example issue is the font outside of editor.

No, most of current UI has huge wasted whitespace, so just increasing the text size could be better for the grandma because of fewer "I can't see that section because all the extra whitespace pushed it off screen so now I have to scroll"

That's what I thought.

That's exactly how a "normal" user would ask such things.

I am not a Microsoft fan, or copilot, or even an A.I. fan, but the article seems to try too hard to find a problem here.

That's not like we don't have real examples around...

Surprised their ads don't show customers getting pissed about a huge, distracting Copilot icon right in the middle of their Word document, with no ability to turn it off...

Also, give me back my right ctrl key !

We haven't jumped the shark until AI takes over so pervasively that only truthful ads with everyone getting pissed at everything not working is the norm. Entire PR and advertising companies are replaced and nobody cares that the slop-out is too reality

"Copilot, how do I remove Copilot?"

website hijacks my back button first press to ask me if i want to see more articles, on the blacklist it goes.

If only you could spend 0.0...x of all the AI investment to design the settings well with proper search.

Just installed Steam OS on a mini pc we use for gaming. One less windows device in the house, and the UI for desktop mode is perfectly adequate. It’s obvious how to change the text size, no AI needed.

This is going to lead to orginizational Reasons to make everything more complicated so the AI can “shine”…

Have you seen the modern windows settings app (and the fallbacks to the old control panel lol)? They already have made everything more complicated.

I thought the new macOS settings app was bad, but Microsoft managed to make something even worse.

Increasing scaling does improve text sizes for visibility.

And it might have been exactly what the user wanted, to make everything larger so it's easier to see, not just text.

In recent months, Microsoft has been on record as saying the future of Windows will see it become an agentic OS, which has seen massive backlash from users who are not interested in such a vision from Microsoft. A recent post about this from Windows president Pavan Davuluri was so negatively received that he had to disable replies.