Re: Bill Gates embarrassed about Vista

Daniel Johnson wrote:

"Maverick" <Sun@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:W7SdnX1a7ILWsV_anZ2dnUVZ_jadnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Daniel Johnson wrote:


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Most people don't have your violent reaction to ClearType, you know.


What violent reaction?


You are practically having seizures all over the newsgroup! :D

And as usual you exagerate a lot.


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Really? What proof do you have? Or are you just making this up?
After all, I was going to buy into Vista along with their development tools, but it seems that their products are still unpolished yet.


I, um, don't believe that one. Even when you try to be reasonable, you still can't bring yourself to believe anything positive about Microsoft, as far as I can see. There was never any possibility of your switching.


So you think. I'm still doing further investigations. I'm planning on going to a local PC shop and have them hook up a quality monitor to see if the problems go away. I like how VS6.0 handles projects with ease. Yet I have the right to also criticize where MS has failed in some areas. No o/s vendor is without flaws here, so your assumptions are totally erroneous.
So far, you haven't given any solutions to the problems I see.

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This was a common complaint when Apple released Safari for Windows; it suddenly exposed lots of Windows users to Apple's text.


Apples text wasn't involved in that... it was MS's fonts that were shown. Which proves my point. :D


Oh, no. The thing was, Safari looked the same on Windows as on OS X. The same blurry text. It was Apple's fonts and Apple's renderer.


I really say, that the problem lays at the o/s. How are Apple fonts supposed to work without the Quartz engine on Vista?
It doesn't. So it *has* to use windows fonts. So are you saying that the Vista supplied fonts are crappy?

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I do see color fringing when I look. It's there, and it's real. I got used to it, and it doesn't bother me anymore.


I do not accept it. Pure and simple.


Well, that's up to you. But to accept blur and not accept fringes is just your preference.


There is no blur. Now it looks like your biases are showing and you can't get past your own bias in this matter. I look at a Sun workstations and their fonts are very sharp and clear compared to Vista.
Don't bother saying that they are jagged, as I doubt you have ever viewed their latest offerings.


It is still the case that if you want better font rendering *without* those compromises, you need high-DPI displays. Windows supports those, and OS X does not.


Guffaw!! There you go again about OS X. So tell me which display vendor would do the job? I know that Sun sells them but these are a bit too pricey. They are on par with Apples display units.

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Which proves you need to see an eye doctor.
But then I noticed that you do an awful lot of cutting and snipping in these posts lately. Why is that? Is it because I'm exposing the truth behind the whole matter? Like....


Like I said, discretion is the better part of trolling. :D


So you admit to trolling. I see.
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