Poor font rendering in Windows 8 (blurry text)

Anonymous
2013-02-24T00:17:00+00:00

Apparently there is a huge problem with **** font rendering in Windows 8. Text appears very blurry. Programs affected by the new rendering are: Internet Explorer 10, the modern interface (start screen), Office 2013 and other 3rd party applications that rely on this rendering technology. There is no way to fix this problem, unless Microsoft recognizes it.

I 've gathered links bellow that refer to the same problem to highlight its importance and display the number of users that are affected:

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_8-performance/windows-8-blurryfuzzy-text-and-icons-on-menu-not/ef8945ff-9920-47b2-b4ec-db1c5fbab7de

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/ie/forum/ie10-windows_8/windows-8-fonts-in-metro-ui-and-ie-10-blurry/3c29c415-54fd-44c8-b290-1c01dd05beaf

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/ie/forum/ie10-windows_8/font-are-blurry-in-internet-explorer-10-windows-8/95fba606-5f45-43fa-bd96-413f6d9d9ad6

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/ie/forum/ie10-windows_8/after-upgrading-to-windows-8-pro-my-fonts-in/210e46c9-4d16-4de7-8b59-2a1b0a7c738a

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/ie/forum/ie10-windows_8/internet-explorer-10-windows-8-font-rendering-blur/f3b33400-bb95-450c-9587-68adbf298a2f

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_cp-winapps/blurry-text-windows-8/576183c0-e5e2-4916-8283-0a193d633018

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_8-hardware/blurry-text-problem/d07ac513-de07-49d9-8718-7fbb6d07b634

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/ie/forum/ie10-windows_8/windows-8-browsers-font-rendering-issue-blocky/86139808-9c3f-48d9-bfa8-61afebd5761c

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/ie/forum/ie10_cp-windows_cp/windows-8-preview-release-blurry-font-rendering/668f454e-012f-498f-a086-b550a96d47e1

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_8-performance/horrible-windows-8-font-rendering/cc263629-f4c8-4653-af36-435f4e6b7d38

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_other-desktop/will-windows-8-have-better-fonts-or-at-least/ad35ce7b-45a9-44b4-83d9-aae34df8dd97

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_8-performance/fonts-are-suddenly-ugly-why/ba024dcc-c143-4ede-8f04-27930527c5be

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/ie/forum/ie10_cp-windows_cp/installation-of-windows-8-cp-causes-blurred-fonts/75352b20-cb08-4312-b7f3-6c38bb5f5f0a

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_8-desktop/monitor-fonts-windows-8-fuzzy-and-no-longer-crisp/052e7a57-79a7-49c5-93dc-bffb01969cbd

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/ie/forum/ie9-windows_vista/some-fonts-are-fuzzy-and-thicker-in-ie9-in/47f1846f-7817-464b-8121-d1ca02dbb71d

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_8-performance/blurry-text-in-windows-8/ed053d17-b525-4e09-bdbc-de91114d975c

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_8-performance/windows-8-has-made-my-text-blurry/7e9977e0-335f-4e8b-b321-eb2d156f36c1

Microsoft MSDN/TECHNET

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winappsuidesign/thread/4ddc57e1-de74-4044-940e-76e35a3e76b9

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-ZA/w8itprogeneral/thread/034ef255-40d5-41d5-9c58-841868326832

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/br/w8itprogeneral/thread/831ee84b-95a1-437a-b051-b7d51e13ba0f

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w8itprogeneral/thread/d9c1ce96-58aa-401f-a5f4-1c62660077ca

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/W8ITProPreRel/thread/409d4e85-1124-4e1c-9cc0-3b2acfd519dd

External forums:

http://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1120890-internet-explorer-10-fonts-fuzzy-in-windows-8/

http://www.eightforums.com/browsers-mail/5432-blurry-text-ie10-desktop.html

http://www.techsupportforum.com/forums/f56/blurry-website-fonts-in-ie10-675564.html

http://www.techplex.net/postst78315_Text-in-Internet-Explorer-10-and-Metro-UI-is-blurry.aspx

http://superuser.com/questions/506192/disable-cleartype-blurry-fonts-in-internet-explorer-10-on-windows-7

http://bugsort.com/computer-users/computer-unclear-type-in-internet-explorer-on-windows-8/?PHPSESSID=10368ff87086c902a678043f63e39762

and there are lots of more...

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  1. Anonymous
    2013-07-30T20:46:51+00:00

    HERE IS SOME OF THE CORRESPONDENCE I HAVE HAD WITH MY MVP LEAD.

    Hi, So Young Lee,

    I have just added this comment to that long running post.  I am really disappointed with Microsoft's response and so are over 250 posters.

    "There are more than enough MVP's contributing to this post.  As MVP's are just normal users and not really connected with Microsoft there is not much more they can do than to prod Microsoft to respond officially to this post.  Unfortunately Microsoft have obviously chosen not to respond as yet."

    Mike Linstead

    -----Original Message-----

    From: Soyoung Lee [

    Sent: Monday, 8 July 2013 1:30 PM

    To: Mike and Linda Linstead

    Subject: RE: Windows8 Forum issue

    Hi, Mike Linstead.

    What a disappointing situation. T.T

    Let me find more people in R&D team, than. I'm not sure though whether I can find the appropriate person who can answer, but I'll do my best.

    Sincerely,

    Soyoung

    -----Original Message-----

    From: Mike and Linda Linstead

    Sent: Monday, July 8, 2013 6:33 AM

    To: Soyoung Lee

    Subject: RE: Windows8 Forum issue

    Hi, So Young Lee,

    I have been waiting a couple of months now to see some reply from a Microsoft representative to the two posts that I originally linked to back

    on April 21, 2013.    I am not seeing any response from Microsoft on this

    matter.  One of those posts has over 200 postings from Microsoft customers.

    I would like to see some Graphics Microsoft representative answer in those posts, or offer an explanation as to what the problem is that is causing so many customers a problem.

    I feel it is not the MS Answer Forum team in US that is the problem, it is the lack of expert (original programmers) comment that reflects badly on Microsoft.

    One of the posts was started on February 24, 2013.  I, too, am disappointed with Microsoft's response, or lack of response.

    I do thank you for your assistance however.

    Mike Linstead

    -----Original Message-----

    From: So Young Lee

    Sent: Thursday, 9 May 2013 5:23 PM

    To: Mike and Linda LInstead

    Subject: FW: Windows8 Forum issue

    Hi, Mike

    Our BG lead took an action on this and started to communicate with MS Answer Forum team in US.

    Hope we can see some progress on this issue. Please keep me informed with future change. Thanks again, Mike

    -----Original Message-----

    From: Mike and Linda LInstead

    Sent: Sunday, April 21, 2013 7:08 AM

    To: So Young Lee

    Subject: Can you help?

    Hello So Young Lee,

    Can you help with organising a reply to these questions on the Microsoft Answers Forum?  They are in desperate need for a reply from a Microsoft Representative.

    Horrible Windows 8 Font Rendering

    http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows\_8-performance/horri

    ble-windows-8-font-rendering/cc263629-f4c8-4653-af36-435f4e6b7d38

    Blurry Text in Windows 8

    http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows\_8-performance/blurr

    y-text-in-windows-8/ed053d17-b525-4e09-bdbc-de91114d975c

    These Microsoft staffers compiled this following  article, is there any chance you could get one of them to reply to both of the above posts which are not being answered satisfactorily at the moment, and could they identify themselves as being from Microsoft (if that is allowed)?

    Hardware accelerating everything: Windows 8 graphics http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2012/07/23/hardware-accelerating-everythi

    ng-windows-8-graphics.aspx

     Rob Copeland + Sriram Subramanian, Dan McLachlan, Kam VedBrat, Steve Lim, and Jianye Lu, for their substantial contributions to this blog post.

    The above two questions do need a response from Microsoft in my opinion.

    All the best.

    Mike Linstead

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  2. Anonymous
    2013-07-30T20:39:06+00:00

    There are more than enough MVP's contributing to this post.  As MVP's are just normal users and not really connected with Microsoft there is not much more they can do than to prod Microsoft to respond officially to this post.  Unfortunately Microsoft have obviously chosen not to respond as yet.

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  3. Anonymous
    2013-07-30T17:36:23+00:00

    Well I did the feedback form. I have no confidence it will make any difference. At least it did not take too long.

    There really is nothing set up on the Microsoft website for people to raise this kind of issue.

    Is there a network of MVP's we could get in to?

    Happy Summer.

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  4. Anonymous
    2013-07-30T11:42:46+00:00

    I have tried all possible combinations between enable/disable hardware graphics acceleration and subpixel positioning, without any differences at all. The blurry text is always there...

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  5. Anonymous
    2013-07-30T09:01:54+00:00

    Well I gave ubuntu a try over the weekend and I don't have font issues there and it was a surprisingly a pleasant experience and all my hardware was compatible. I'm going to be making the permanent switch if this isn't fixed when 8.1 is released. 

    How MS continues to ignore this unbearable eye sore is mind boggling. At this point MS are forcing you to buy some super high DPI monitor or deal with it. Well, I'm going to deal with it by switching to Linux very soon if need be.

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