Poor font rendering in Windows 8 (blurry text)

We are not talking about the desktop. Your desktop's fine! ... or , well, a little bit messy ;)

The problem appears mostly in Internet Explorer 10! Go for example to www.facebook.com or http://www.latimes.com/ using on the one side Internet Explorer 10 and on the other Google Chrome. Notice the difference. If there isn't any, maybe this problem appears on some machines with specific configuration. If you do see the difference, you will understand that the smaller the letters, the blurriness makes them even harder to read. For example, facebook chat is almost unusable.

To see my point of view of the issue, download this image (don't just view on browser). Click on "actual size" to see it in the original scale and compare fonts between IE10 and Chrome.

ok here is my facebookwith IE and chrome. IE actually has better font.

Actually yes! It appears IE performs a lot better than Chrome on your system. But you've also selected a higher DPI setting or you have zoomed to 125% in IE. I tried that too and it made the problem less notable (but I don't want large letters). It's weird that Chrome appears so blurry on your PC, but not exactly in the way IE appears blurry on mine (see the image I posted previously).

Can you tell us more about your configuration? Which graphics card do you have? Can you repeat posting an image comparing Chrome and IE using the default zoom and DPI settings (100%). Thanks for your time!

ugh everything looks awful at 100% DPI.

I figured out the problem. With the screen resolution so big and having it at the default DPI (which is meant for 15 inch screens with low resolutions) its basically at a magnification. Just to be clear, since my resolution is at 1920 x 1200 and I set it at 100% DPI the computer is going to group an image in small amounts of pixels to form the picture requested where if I was at 150% DPI it would grab on to more pixels to form that same picture. Say you had a resolution of 800 x 600, this would give you 480,000 pixels on ur screen while at 1920 x 1200 there are 2,304,000 pixels to grab onto. This gives you an idea of what I mean, scroll down to pixel resolution.

Its like in photoshop, if an image can grab more pixels it can become sharper, crisp and even smooth in some areas.

If you don't want ur font so big just use the "Change only Text Size".

The default DPI is 100% (named "smaller" in the control panel). You are supposed to keep that setting (100%), unless you want to enlarge objects and text on screen, therefore select a higher one (125% or 150% or custom). You could also enlarge objects and text on screen by lowering the resolution through screen settings, but this is completely wrong as it would cause blurriness or the "pixeling" effect (same thing as zooming in a picture more than its original resolution).

I have a 1920x1080 monitor and DPI set to 100%. The image you just posted is excellent (sharp) with Chrome, blurry or fuzzy with Internet Explorer (same behavior with my PC). It is not awful everywhere, unless you personally dislike smaller letters or your eyes get tired easily. 

Maybe you are a little bit confused with the DPI settings, unless I misunderstood what you were trying to explain above. See this image I made, it may clear things up. Thanks again!