I wonder if Times New Roman would look better on an extremely high resolution screen, or if there's something else that would have to change in how we produce screens. (Increased contrast, or the lack of a backlight, for example.)
Microsoft was aggressively hinting its fonts to align with screen pixels, so perhaps they might've done that with the licensed TNR too? Not sure if they did that to third-party fonts, especially before Verdana & co. And for some reason TNR on my Mac is credited to Microsoft & Monotype, which suggests that the same decisions are inherited (though Wikipedia says the Windows and Mac versions differ at least in ligatures, or differed at some point).
