Will bootcamp work well with new MacBook Pro 15-Retina?

Am I going to have any serious limitations if I bootcamp the new MacBook Pro 2012 with Retina display?
How will Windows 7 (or 8) look on the Retina display?
Will the bootcamp installation provide Nvidia drivers for dedicated graphics chip?
Any other limitations?

I just loaded win7 via bootcamp on the macbook pro retina and after you install the bootcamp drivers, you can actually scale all the way up to 2880x1800.  Text is obviously smaller but if you set the text scaling to 150% it is readable - still on the small side.   Everything seems to work after you install the bootcamp drivers. There is a nvidia control panel that you can access to adjust settings as well.  Like within OS X, you can drive the retina display plus 2 external monitors and have all 3 displays functioning.  There are 2 things that are a bit quirky - 1) the backlit keyboard always turns back on for me after I reboot even though I turn it off before rebooting and 2) it gets toasty - I installed core temp and with all 3 screens going, and just running Windows Update and browsing the web, cpu temps got up to 195F.  Lowering the screen resolution and unplugging the external monitors seem to bring this down to 145 or so so it seems it's related to the nvidia gpu pushing the extra pixels to the various displays.  It definitely runs much cooler under OS X.

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