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Microsoft to non-Windows web surfers: “Neener,
neener.”

They’ve stopped offering
the Web Core Fonts as a free download, and it’s ridiculous. These
typefaces have been bundled with Internet Explorer (for better or for worse,
the Internet standard) for so long that they’re part of the Internet
now; they’ve been freely downloadable, too, so that Netscape/Mozilla users,
Opera users, etc. can join in. These typefaces are practically standards:
A web developer can assume that at least one of these no-nonsense, workhorse
typefaces is present on a viewer’s machine. The removal of the fonts is
classic Microsoft spite.

TrueType core fonts for the Web

Web fonts program discontinued

Microsoft’s TrueType core fonts for the Web are no longer available for
download from www.microsoft.com.