Editing Subpixel rendering (section)

=== ClearType ===
{{main|ClearType}}

[[Microsoft]] announced its subpixel rendering technology, called [[ClearType]], at [[COMDEX]] in 1998.<ref>{{Citation|title=ICT Bill Gates 1998 keynote comdex 1998|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoVFwMnEUHA|language=en|access-date=2021-11-30|archive-date=2021-11-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211130191757/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoVFwMnEUHA|url-status=live}}</ref> Microsoft published a paper in May 2000, ''Displaced Filtering for Patterned Displays,'' describing the filtering behind ClearType.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Platt|first=John|last2=Keely|first2=Bert|last3=Hill|first3=Bill|last4=Dresevic|first4=Bodin|last5=Betrisey|first5=Claude|last6=Mitchell|first6=Don P.|last7=Hitchcock|first7=Greg|last8=Blinn|first8=Jim|last9=Whitted|first9=Turner|date=2000-05-01|title=Displaced Filtering for Patterned Displays|url=https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/displaced-filtering-for-patterned-displays/|language=en-US|pages=296–299|access-date=2021-11-30|archive-date=2021-11-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211130191757/https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/displaced-filtering-for-patterned-displays/|url-status=live}}</ref> It was then made available in [[Windows XP]], but it was not activated by default until [[Windows Vista]]. (Windows XP [[OEM]]s, however, could and did change the default setting.)<ref name="win7">[[Greg Hitchcock]] (with introduction by [[Steven Sinofsky]]) "[http://blogs.msdn.com/b/e7/archive/2009/06/23/engineering-changes-to-cleartype-in-windows-7.aspx Engineering Changes to ClearType in Windows 7] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121218085312/http://blogs.msdn.com/b/e7/archive/2009/06/23/engineering-changes-to-cleartype-in-windows-7.aspx|date=2012-12-18}}", MSDN blogs, June 23, 2009</ref>