Can't yet comment exhaustively on the Zombie-Unwanted-MS-Fonts-Coming-Back-From-The-Grave phenomenon, but here's a reasonably clear Wiki Community step-by-step guide to purging them.
http://www.wikihow.com/Delete-Protected-System-Fonts-in-Windows-7
I can say they haven't returned after my most recent Windows Update download/install cycle, which involved half-a-dozen of the usual mysterious Don't-Worry-Your-Pretty-Little-Head-About-The-Details patches.
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Reading this thread's prior meta-discussions have piqued me to add this personal comment
I've had in-depth professional experience of Windows and Mac OS since their earliest releases, including having to be my own IT guy in the early (pre-funding) days of various startups over the years.
Though both Apple and Microsoft have substantially improved their products over that time, the simple truth is that both companies' offerings have always reflected the core business strategy of their key founders.
In the case of Microsoft:
a) as fast as possible, and as the highest priority [i.e. ahead of reliability, security, usability, or current-customer convenience] remove all prospective-customer objections to any MS product which take the form "can it do X?", where our answer is currently
"no"; [i.e. the strategy that enabled us to build and maintain our 30-year-plus monopoly status on desktop operating systems and office productivity applications]
b) value the cost of any additional hardware resources needed to run new versions of our products at zero; [after all, we capture value from every new Windows PC sale]
c) value the cost of any additional current-customer time which will predictably be required for routine system maintenance by our product development strategy & priorities at zero [after all, costs us nothing; and also helps generate demand for the MS-centric
third-party IT services "ecosystem"]
Professional IT service providers who cover mixed enterprise environments supporting both platforms will, if they are being honest, tell you the consequent hard truth: a population of Windows machines requires 10x the support labor needed by an equivalent
population of Mac OS machines. [Can you say: "job security"?]
Windows PCs are always the cheapest option -- as long as you value your own time lost to struggling unnecessarily with them, and having them fixed, at **zero dollars per hour**. And as long as you also value your own stress and frustration and rework costs
at zero dollars, too.
After you learn this the hard way, and have done enough research to understand that this has **always** been the case since the very beginnings of the personal computer revolution, you'll come to understand what us platform-agnostic, hard-bitten, old-timer
techies have learned, via the same personal journey:
- Microsoft makes a line of very popular toy operating systems.
They're fine for running games machines with, period.
Use them for any other purpose, and you must accept that you will always pay continual "frictional" costs in terms of frustration, maintenance tedium, the highest risk of data loss, and the cost of frequent hardware upgrades.
2a) For hardcore compsci hobbyists who **enjoy** spending time tinkering with their computers, and who prize personal autonomy above all else, nothing beats [some ever-changing flavor-de-jour of] Linux.
2b) Seriously hardcore compsci people who value reliability above all else use a BSD UNIX flavor [and stick with it for years or decades.]
- And, as their slogan has always made clear (also directly reflecting the frequently-declared and documented personal and business strategy of their key founders), Apple makes information appliances "for the rest of us"; ones that, largely/within the reasonable
limits of human ingenuity and pragmatism, "just work".
Apple gear costs somewhat more up-front than the other options.
It *will* do what you primarily (and the vast majority of other reasonable people) actually want to use it for, and generally in the most straightforward way;
You'll consistently be able find how to do those primary tasks with little or no time & effort being wasted on figuring your way past a confusing clutter of other features of limited relevance that some tiny subset of the audience once asked for)
It won't always do *exactly* what you want, at some arbitrarily fine level of detail; but the chances are quite high that this really, truly, won't actually matter to you very much, unless you have OCD.
It's not perfect, nor will it last forever -- because it's still conceived & built by mere humans, and subject to engineering and business constraints; but Apple does actually take your satisfaction seriously. Their post-sales support is not perfect, nor
eternal, for the very same reasons; but it's by far better than the most-popular alternative.
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