I have read several articles and reviews on Windows Vista. I noticed that no review covered one of the highly improved features in Windows Vista - the cleartype font rendering. Sure, cleartype has been around since Windows XP days, but in Vista the default font rendering looks dramatically improved. On an LCD monitor, the fonts render as if they are on print. You can keep looking at the monitor for hours without getting your eyes tired. This is way better than the default font rendering that comes with many Linux distributions or the blurry font rendering in OS X.
Vista also ships with a new set of fonts (all starting with the letter C) which look ultra cool. For developers, the Consolas font is probably one of the best fonts ever created for programming. If you are on Vista, set all your text editor fonts to Consolas and see the difference!
I have slightly tweaked the CSS on this site, so that it uses some of the 'C' fonts that come with Vista.
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