Microsoft (and Apple) did a similar thing back in 1996–7 with "core fonts for the web" in which they tried to push a standard pack of fonts out to everyone so t

Microsoft (and Apple) did a similar thing back in 1996–7 with "core fonts for the web" in which they tried to push a standard pack of fonts out to everyone so that web designers could assume that end users would have certain key fonts. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_fonts_for_the_Web http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_fonts_for_the_Web It's not some big conspiracy, it's about making the web easier to use, easier to read, and easier to design.