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[Jim Campbell]

    MICROSOFT EXTENDS TRUETYPE FONTS TO THE WEB, ENABLING RICHER WEB PAGES
  
   Forty Industry Leaders Including Hewlett-Packard, Macromedia and Oracle
      Support Solution Based on Industry-Standard TrueType Technology
  
        BOSTON, Feb. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT)
   today announced that its TrueType(R) font technology has been extended
   to the World Wide Web, allowing designers to create great-looking Web
   pages that consumers can view -- even if they haven't bought the
   specific typefaces for their PCs.  Forty industry leaders -- including


Lord, it's not enough that I have to strain to read pink type
on chartreuse backgrounds, now it's going to be in weird
typefaces too! 
Well, maybe there will be a Turn Off Fonts option.

	-  Jim Campbell  (campbell at virginia.edu)

(Yes, I know it seems trivial and a waste of bandwidth to send
this, but it's a cry from the heart. I've just spent half an
hour with some pages that clearly were never meant to be
read.)