Now Adobe just needs to get their game together. The Creative Suite are exactly the type of applications used by early adopting Mac users that could use a retina display.
I think everyone is anxiously awaiting an updated Photoshop, but I'm just not sure how they'd do it. I've been thinking about it for a few weeks, but it's a pretty major problem. Ps is all about mapping an image to exact pixels, but that's not practical on a Retina display. A 1x image would appear too small (or pixelated, just as it is now, at 200%), and 2x images would be too small at 100% (Retina actual size) to do pixel perfect detail work.
Maybe there's an obvious solution I'm overlooking.
The icons within the ribbon bar bar are very hit or miss. If you're on a Retina device, here are some screenshots to illustrate:
http://cl.ly/image/2R2i420N2S2o http://cl.ly/image/1k3w2O2u2D23 http://cl.ly/image/0P2U0u1p451k http://cl.ly/image/0v1u1D3d3W40
In contrast, the main toolbar looks great:
http://cl.ly/image/071q3r3l3i30
I also had the same issue as a number of other people where the app did not launch in Retina mode the first time around, and needed to touch the *.app files to make it happen.
Obviously, MS Office is a huge suite with an enormous number of resources. It's no mean feat, and just getting the basics up to retina is a great accomplishment. Personally, I'm just glad to have the editor in retina - I'd been opening Word documents in Pages for months now. Especially when you consider that some of these images probably come as-is from the Windows team and they may not even have access to them in higher resolution, I guess I can completely sympathize with the current implementation.
see http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1446182&pag...
(Cult of Mac) http://www.cultofmac.com/191671/office-for-mac-2011-finally-...
(Microsoft) http://blog.officeformac.com/retina-display-support-is-here-...
