Microsoft was aggressively hinting its fonts to align with screen pixels, so perhaps they might've done that with the licensed TNR too? Not sure if they did tha

Microsoft was aggressively hinting its fonts to align with screen pixels, so perhaps they might've done that with the licensed TNR too? Not sure if they did that to third-party fonts, especially before Verdana & co. And for some reason TNR on my Mac is credited to Microsoft & Monotype, which suggests that the same decisions are inherited (though Wikipedia says the Windows and Mac versions differ at least in ligatures, or differed at some point).