Poor font rendering in Windows 8 (blurry text)

I tried it, it didn't work.  The solution is uninstalling IE10.  There's nothing that IE10 offers that IE8 or IE9 (or Chrome, my default browser) can't do.  

But no worries, Microsoft doesn't care what we think, anyway.

Interesting oddity:

1. Open IE's Developer Tools from the menu or by pressing F12.
2. Press CTRL-B or select the mouse pointer icon to select an element in the page.
3. Notice that the font rendering corrects itself.
4. Close Developer Tools.
5. Notice that the font rendering reverts to ugly again.

It works as you say.

I think you are on to something here. 

Perhaps someone with more knowledge than me can tell us why it works and maybe how we can use this oddity to force IE10 to render clear text by default.

You are absolutely right.  The problem is internal to Windows 8 on PC's.  I recommend to people that they don not buy Windows 8 until Microsoft can fix this problem and other problems endemic to this system. Problems with Microsoft Office 10 as well.  I would think Microsoft would be aware of the problem and try to fix it, but apparently they are too big to care.

Just to reiterate what was already stated above, this is not just an IE problem. Seems like a lot of replies are focusing on IE. This a Windows 8 problem for PC's.