Microsoft and Apple Extend Font Licensing Agreement

Microsoft and Apple Extend Font Licensing Agreement

Tom Warren on 03 August 2007 - 10:13 · 22 comments & 10763 views

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At TypeCon2007 today, Microsoft Corp. and Apple announced they have renewed their font licensing agreement, giving Apple users ongoing use of the latest versions of Microsoft® Windows® core fonts. Under the agreement, Apple and Microsoft are extending the seamless Web and software experience Apple users have enjoyed for years when using and viewing popular Microsoft fonts such as Times New Roman, Arial and Verdana®. Apple customers, developers and Web designers can safely specify fonts knowing that their documents, presentations and Web pages will appear as they are meant to be seen on screen and in print.

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(3 replies) #1 dangel on 03 Aug 2007 - 11:22

Can you feel the unnatural love?

It's as though a hundred rabid Mac fans just cried out "nooooooooooooooooooooooo!"

#1.1 Glassed Silver on 03 Aug 2007 - 11:50

what is your problem exactly?

#1.2 Radish™ on 03 Aug 2007 - 13:41

Quote - (dangel said @ #1)

It's as though a hundred rabid Mac fans just cried out "nooooooooooooooooooooooo!"

Don't think they would since they are renewing the agreement, makes sense since Office 2008 for OS X is being made.

Radish™

#1.3 dangel on 06 Aug 2007 - 09:27

Kids of today, no sense of humour. pah

(2 replies) #2 JiveMasterT on 03 Aug 2007 - 13:10

This just in, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs go on a date.

#2.1 Glassed Silver on 03 Aug 2007 - 14:24

go voyeurs, gooo video that! XD

Glassed Silver:mac

#2.2 Mamoun on 03 Aug 2007 - 14:35

ROFL

(1 reply) #3 Thrawn on 03 Aug 2007 - 14:43

Humn... I don't think they included any of the new Windows Vista fonts... too bad, currently I specify them on webpages with alternates.

#3.1 TRC on 03 Aug 2007 - 15:31

Office 2007 installs the SegoeUI fonts on XP, I don't know about the Mac version though.

(3 replies) #4 GP02X on 03 Aug 2007 - 15:21

since this is a press release from microsoft's side... i wonder what apple will post...

#4.1 TRC on 03 Aug 2007 - 15:32

I'm not sure why they would post anything different since it's positive news for them.

#4.2 Croquant on 03 Aug 2007 - 17:18

Apple will now claim that they've re-invented the concept of Fonts, and will unveil the new Apple iFonts.

#4.3 whistlerxp on 03 Aug 2007 - 20:29

Apple and Microsoft actually worked together to produce the TrueType font standard, this is just an agreement pertaining to certain important fonts that Microsoft owns and FYI Apple and Microsoft put out the exact same statement.

(2 replies) #5 EXO242 on 03 Aug 2007 - 17:27

Helvetica Rules!

#5.1 Magallanes on 03 Aug 2007 - 18:04

or you could hack and rename as Arial and use without licensing. ;-)

The same can do Apple, taking MS Sans Serif, giving some cosmetic changes and rebranding as iSan Serif.

#5.2 einsteinbqat on 03 Aug 2007 - 18:38

Quote - (Magallanes said @ #5.1)

or you could hack and rename as Arial and use without licensing. ;-)

Yeah. Since Arial was based on Helvetica!

(1 reply) #6 TruckWEB on 03 Aug 2007 - 20:29

If only Linux distro could have that same agreement, maybe web page could finaly look good...

Web browsing with FireFox with Ubuntu or any other distro can make lots of page look weird.

Go MS and Apple, at least they know how to make stuff look good.

#6.1 TRC on 03 Aug 2007 - 21:50

Microsoft used to let you download them for free, what happened?

http://www.microsoft.com/truetype/fontpack/win.htm

http://www.microsoft.com/typography/fontpack/eula.htm

#7 mattrobs on 03 Aug 2007 - 23:25

Damn it. Where's Calibri?!

Last edited by mattrobs on 04 Aug 2007 - 05:40

#8 black_death on 04 Aug 2007 - 00:42

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At TypeCon2007 today...

Is this some kind of joke? A convention about fonts?

(1 reply) #9 Axon on 04 Aug 2007 - 02:57

Any chance we can rid ourselves of Comic Sans anytime soon? Please?!

#9.1 TRC on 04 Aug 2007 - 04:01

Why? It's the greatest font ever.

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