Apple is Target, Microsoft is Wal-Mart

I'm a programmer—or used to be. I also fancy my self as a writer and a graphics artist. As such, I have used both the PC and the Mac. And I have always known that graphics print more like they look on-screen using a Mac than they do on a PC.

This is why most folks in the media own Macs, and everyone else owns PCs—that and the fact that you can occasionally get a PC at Dollar Tree.

What I never understood about the graphics thing was why. Why doesn't Microsoft borrow this idea from Mac like they do everything else? I found the answer—and the headline of this post—in Joel-on-Software's discussion of rendered fonts in the new Windows version of Apple's Safari browser. Microsoft believes readability on screen is more important than print consistency. The graphics community disagrees. And neither may ever budge.