MSNBC heeft een artikeltje over Microsoft Reader, een proggie waarmee Bill de leesbaarheid van computer schermen hoopt te verbeteren:
THE COMPANY SAID a new program called Microsoft Reader makes digital text appear almost as clear as words printed on paper. The software’s benefits are most significant on the liquid-crystal displays used on portable computers, making them more suitable for reading book-length documents, Microsoft said. (Microsoft is a partner in MSNBC.)A variety of companies are now selling special-purpose devices that store and display books in digital form. But those products, sometimes called e-books, have been slow to take off. Microsoft thinks publishers can find a larger market sooner if the hundreds of millions of conventional portable and desktop computers are adapted for reading books.
[...] Microsoft Reader is based on a technology called ClearType that Chairman Bill Gates first showed off in November at the Comdex trade show. The technology is designed to compensate for the fact that the dots, or pixels, used to display text on computer screens are much larger than those generated by printers, making computer text appear jagged or fuzzy by comparison. Microsoft researchers found a way to increase resolution by dividing each computer pixel into three elements, made up of the red, green and blue light used to form colors on computer screens.
Volgens mij doen ze hier een poging om de basisprincipes van Anti-Aliasing uit te leggen 
. Windoos doet al in zeker mate aan AA, alleen niet bij kleine fonts (wat dan waarschijnlijk gaat veranderen met Reader). Beta versies zullen voor het eerst in de herfst verschijnen, de final staat gepland voor het eerste kwartaal van 2000. Meer info vind je hier.
