Hey Wil
Thanks for your response.
1. Macbook Pro Retina 13" newest
2. 5.0.3
3. Windows 7 and 8
4. Yes
5. Yes
It still looks a bit washed out and compares in no way to native OS-X in regards of crispy- and sharpness, even though I'm using 1440x900 which is half/quarter of the native solution and should scale ideally? 
And while your looking at it please also fix that annoying resolution switching issue (fallback to native res) when attaching a beamer or other external display.Are you sure that this is a VMware issue? Eg. With VMware not running the resolution stays the same?
--> Yes it's the VM doing this and support recommeded me to delete a file in a vmware folder called setresolution.exe or so. Rather nasty workaround... which prevents from setting the resolution automatically (to native) but still I have to adjust it manually all the time.
Oh and being able to use a second display form vmware to benefit of all the advantages of the new office would be nice as well ;-)I think I'm not completely understanding your question here. I'm using this type of setup right now. Using a 2nd external monitor attached to a macbook pro and that works fine for me. In my case I'm using a mirrored display setup. Can you elaborate here how you want to use the 2nd display?
Well exactly. Natively I can have the presentation on the extended Screen i.e. on the beamer and still having the laptop screen free to take notes etc. Mirroring is well a kinda workaround imho.
-binaryanomaly