Tried it in vmware earlier. I couldn't find a simple way to turn off font smoothing, only a 4 step wizard which kept repeatedly showing me text samples and asking which one looked best. Smoothed text makes me nauseous for some reason and I can't stand it.
Apple's implementation of font smoothing is really terrible. The way they emulate print rendering on-screen makes every letter blurry and unnecessarily bold.
Interestingly, font smoothing in Windows doesn't suffer from this problem.
It would be great if both companies cross-licensed their font smoothing technology to each other, and allowed users to choose which method they want on either OS.
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Interestingly, font smoothing in Windows doesn't suffer from this problem.
The first two results are the legit builds (both 32 and 64 bit). I tested with SHA1 against the signatures in TechNet and they are identical.
BTW, I do have my TechNet subscription, but I couldn't wait for today, so I downloaded those versions mentioned two days ago.
Finally, if you already have a beta key from the previous release, it should work with these ones.