diff --git a/src/msw/button.cpp b/src/msw/button.cpp
index 858d48bb1d..b5500e19fa 100644
--- a/src/msw/button.cpp
+++ b/src/msw/button.cpp
@@ -163,30 +163,19 @@ wxSize wxButtonBase::GetDefaultSize(wxWindow* win)
 
     if ( s_sizeBtn.HasChanged(win) )
     {
-        wxSize base;
-        if ( win )
-        {
-            wxClientDC dc(win);
-            dc.SetFont(wxSystemSettings::GetFont(wxSYS_DEFAULT_GUI_FONT));
-            base = wxPrivate::GetAverageASCIILetterSize(dc);
-        }
-        else
-        {
-            wxScreenDC dc;
-            dc.SetFont(wxSystemSettings::GetFont(wxSYS_DEFAULT_GUI_FONT));
-            base = wxPrivate::GetAverageASCIILetterSize(dc);
-        }
-
-        // The size of a standard button in the dialog units is 50x14,
-        // translate this to pixels.
+        // The "Recommended sizing and spacing" section of MSDN layout article
+        // documents the default button size as being 50*14 dialog units or
+        // 75*23 relative pixels (what we call DIPs). But dialog units don't
+        // work well in high DPI (and not just because of rounding errors, i.e.
+        // the values differ from the actual default button size used by
+        // Windows itself in high DPI by too much), so just use DIPs directly.
         //
-        // Windows' computes dialog units using average character width over
-        // upper- and lower-case ASCII alphabet and not using the average
-        // character width metadata stored in the font; see
-        // http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/145994 for detailed
-        // discussion.
-
-        s_sizeBtn.SetAtNewDPI(wxRescaleCoord(50, 14).From(4, 8).To(base));
+        // Moreover, it looks like the extra 2px borders around the visible
+        // part of the button are not scaled correctly in higher than normal
+        // DPI, so add them without scaling.
+        s_sizeBtn.SetAtNewDPI(
+            wxWindow::FromDIP(wxSize(73, 21), win) + wxSize(2, 2)
+        );
     }
 
     return s_sizeBtn.Get();