14 DAY TRIAL // If you're a long-time Windows user, you sure know that there are a few issues that are yet to be fixed, even though the software giant has until now released not only updates, but also full new builds of the operating system.
One of these bugs is the blurry font that appears to be affecting a number of computers running either Windows 7 and Windows 8 and showing up in both Internet Explorer and the operating system per se.
Although some people hoped to see this issue fixed with the release of Windows 8.1 Update, users explain that text remains very difficult to read due to the same blurry font issue spanning across the entire operating system.
Complaints published on Microsoft's Community forums show that font rendering is still broken down in Windows 8.1 Update, even though Redmond is aware of the issue ever since Windows 7 first came out.
“Surprising that Microsoft release an OS with such a basic problem and do not rush to fix when the first posts came out. This kind of issue (and many users had it) jeopardize the whole experience,” one affected user said in a post.
“Sad that this has gone to sleep without any hint of a fix from Microsoft. I fixed it by going back to Windows 7. No screen problems at all now...” one of the consumers who deployed Windows 8 added.
Others, however, claim they have managed to address the issue by switching the option “Make text and other items larger or smaller” to 125 percent and then back to 100 percent. Such a workaround basically resets the default configuration, but we're receiving reports that it doesn't work all the time.
A number of users claim that in Windows 8.1, Internet Explorer is the only affected application and font rendering seems to be working fine in the other features of the operating system.
“In Windows 8.1, it was fixed everywhere except IE's rendering engine; however IE's rendering engine is used by a number of system components including all of metro so this is no fix at all,” one consumer explained.
The bug can be tracked down to the ClearType font setting that has been introduced in Windows. In most cases, disabling the feature doesn't make any different, or if it does, the result looks even worse than the original font.
At this point, there's no 100 percent working workaround for the issue, but if you've found a way to deal with it, please post it in the comment box after the jump to let other readers give it a try as well. We've also reached out to Microsoft for some instructions on how to address the font rendering problems, so check back soon to read the official response of the company.