The May 2007 issue of IEEE Spectrum includes “The Technology of Text,” fascinating article about the art and science of typography and supporting display technologies such as Microsoft’s ClearType.
While a quick Google of “cleartype vista” indicates that there is no universal warmth to Windows Vista’s ClearType support, I enjoy reading text in Vista more than I do in XP–even with the tuner powertoy for the down-level OS. I’d like to better understand Vista’s integration with ClearType in more detail; so, if you have a good link to share, thanks in advance.
This improved user experience around text and much-improved power management (i.e. extended battery life) have given my work laptop an unexpected boost in usability. There are still a set of issues that prevent me from recommending Vista generally to folks, and I’m hoping that SP1 later this year will address these completely. (I can always hope, right. 
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Interesting. As a Mac-person I could not help Googling a little about this and found out that there is an existing dispute whether Microsofts or Apple/Adobe approach is the best one. It turns out that there is no one single best way, just different approaches.
Read more:
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000885.html
http://images.apple.com/pro/pdf/L311277A_FontTT_v4.pdf
Thanks, Alexandra, for the links. I already enjoy Jeff Atwood’s blog; so the “Coding Horror” post was a good refresher. Cheers…
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I forgot to write that nowadays even people running differences can check out these different approaches to font rendering by comparing Safari for Windows and IE for Windows side-by-side.
http://www.apple.com/safari/
PS. It is still a beta so it might be a little rough on its edges DS.