[alaskamiller]

If it makes you feel better, ClearType was a brand Microsoft has used since the late 90's/early 00's. I know it as some weird pixel display thing designed to make text look sharper in WinXP. But, it was a hidden option that required third-party software to reveal to me.

In Microsoft's world, they assume themselves to be the sun and thereby everything revolves around them and their cheesy need to synergize jargony things. Too bad momentum isn't in Microsoft's favor these days.

[mattiask]

Thats what made it so funny. I can see the Microsoft meeting:

-Hey so everyone talking about this Retina thing how are we going to compete? -Let's make up our own word! Do we have anything lying around we can use? -Developer: Well, we have this ClearType thing but it's really more about software... -Marketing Guy: Software Hardware, what's the difference. ClearType Display it is! -Developer: I quit

[kpozin]

They've also co-opted the five-year-old "Surface" trademark, which is now called PixelSense: http://www.pixelsense.com

[viggity]

dafuq. I wondered what was going to happen to the original surface. pixelsense is an awful name.

[untog]

It is, but no end-user is going to buy one of those giant devices. They're marketed to corporate customers, for whom PixelSense is probably just fine.

[bobsil1]

They turned .NET into damn near everything, and jam Windows in where it doesn't make sense (e.g. a tablet where apps run full-screen).

[cubicle67]

which redirects to http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/pixelsense/default.aspx

I see the old Surface is now known as the Samsung SUR40

[Turing_Machine]

Or as I call it "BlurryType". The color fringing drives me nuts.

[itsboring]

Whenever I do a fresh windows install, it's a race to turn off cleartype before I get a headache.

[TazeTSchnitzel]

Don't turn it off. Go into Color settings (or whatever they call it) and use the ClearType tuning wizard to sharpen it.