Font rendering in Windows vs OSX

[gator]

One point that kind of unsettles me on a Mac is the way fonts look. It feels so foreign after years of using windows ... the following article tries to explain why:

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/200 ... ml?hi=joel

Which one do you prefer? My vote is for the way windows does it, I spend more time reading on screen than paper.

[ryengineer]

Microsoft generally believes that the shape of each letter should be hammered into pixel boundaries to prevent blur and improve readability, even at the cost of not being true to the typeface.

That sums up my vote perfectly.