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If it makes you feel better, ClearType was a brand Microsoft has used since the late 90's/early 00's. I know it as some weird pixel display thing designed to ma
by alaskamiller 14y ago
If it makes you feel better, ClearType was a brand Microsoft has used since the late 90's/early 00's. I know it as some weird pixel display thing designed to make text look sharper in WinXP. But, it was a hidden option that required third-party software to reveal to me.
In Microsoft's world, they assume themselves to be the sun and thereby everything revolves around them and their cheesy need to synergize jargony things. Too bad momentum isn't in Microsoft's favor these days.
- mattiask 14y agoThats what made it so funny. I can see the Microsoft meeting: -Hey so everyone talking about this Retina thing how are we going to compete? -Let's make up our own word! Do we have anything lying around we can use? -Developer: Well, we have this ClearType thing but it's really more about software... -Marketing Guy: Software Hardware, what's the difference. ClearType Display it is! -Developer: I quit
- kpozin 14y agoThey've also co-opted the five-year-old "Surface" trademark, which is now called PixelSense: http://www.pixelsense.com http://www.pixelsense.com
- viggity 14y agodafuq. I wondered what was going to happen to the original surface. pixelsense is an awful name.
- untog 14y agoIt is, but no end-user is going to buy one of those giant devices. They're marketed to corporate customers, for whom PixelSense is probably just fine.
- bobsil1 14y agoThey turned .NET into damn near everything, and jam Windows in where it doesn't make sense (e.g. a tablet where apps run full-screen).
- cubicle67 14y agowhich redirects to http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/pixelsense/default.aspx http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/pixelsense/default.aspx I see the old Surface is now known as the Samsung SUR40
- Turing_Machine 14y agoOr as I call it "BlurryType". The color fringing drives me nuts.
- itsboring 14y agoWhenever I do a fresh windows install, it's a race to turn off cleartype before I get a headache.
- TazeTSchnitzel 14y agoDon't turn it off. Go into Color settings (or whatever they call it) and use the ClearType tuning wizard to sharpen it.