Apple.com looks better on … Vista

Well it actually does.
I know that it was a topic about a year ago about the rendering engines in operating systems. Some of the Mac addicts were promoting the wonderful aspects of the text rendered in MacOS. Well I’m not so Mac addict. I mean I truly appreciate the effort in having good designs and nice materials used in their products, but regarding the technical side - the software side … I don’t know about that.

This may sound weird, but even though I am a designer, my work is done on a pc using Microsoft XP. I know that this may sound strange for graphic designers, but I believe that higher quality is found in pc software applications and also great diversity.
Back to the subject, several months ago I’ve worked for a few weeks on a Vista based PC. I must admit that the rendering engine is awesome. Every line of text was properly rendered without any bold effect applied from nowhere like on Safari for example. Even with small font size the rendering engine behavior was flawless. So, now I was back on the Vista and made some rendering test and I achieved better results on Vista than on MacOS. The testing subject was Apple.com. It seems like Microsoft does the job on Apple’s site even though the Mac based machines are sold more quickly now than PCs.

Kudos for the developers for making this great rendering engine!

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