More Microsofty madness

[ilai]

I upgraded to Office 2007 at work this morning and noticed that it uses the new Vista fonts for all its menu and text. My first thought was, "huh, that's kind of neat, they've decided to anti-alias everything and use a reputable font (Frutiger) as their default."

... except then I went looking for Frutiger on my machine and it wasn't there. Instead, there were these two other fonts called Segoe and Segoe UI that bear an uncanny resemblance to Frutiger. Microsoft has done it again--they've ripped off another reputable typeface and replaced it with a sad substitute from Monotype.

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[boonleong.livejournal.com]

Out of curiosity, have you seen this before?

八月中秋山林涼
風吹大地草枝擺
甘霖老母趕羚羊
來年羊毛超級賣
草枝擺啊趕羚羊
趕羚羊啊草枝擺

庭院織芭為君開
都蘭山曉金桔擺
天搖地動舟渡嵐
嗚呼甘霖老蹟埋
金桔擺啊老蹟埋
老蹟埋啊金桔擺

The punning on multiple levels is impressive to say the least.

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[ilai]

You're a bad man Boon, you made me laugh at work :)

[fredrickegerman.livejournal.com]

I feel your pain. But not quite as much.

Nonetheless, Arial must die!