There's no reason to attack anyone

Don't make this personal, I didn't attack you. I simply stated FACTS.

The only reason I posted the link to Evernote is because you said font rendering is up to video drivers (only).

Yes, and I stick by my original response, it IS drivers, read the article YOU posted.. that part about Anti-Aliasing... You posted the article, but you didn't read it?

for all I know vmware did something similar and used something that makes text look like that on Windows 7

Yes, and since you are the ONLY one with the problem it's NOT a VM Ware VI Client software problem. That's what I am trying to tell you. You want to believe that because you installed VI Client, and XP was working fine, Windows 7 is not it MUST be VM Ware. That's where I don't see the correlation. If you installed VI Client on XP ONLY THEN maybe you would be on to something, but seeing as how you changed OS (and probably hardware), drivers, and the VI Client (you did install the latest version right?), then perhaps the problem isn't with VI Client at all.

It could be a setting, which IS driver related. That's my point. If new applications are using WPF, it may be beneficial for you to figure out what's CHANGED with the .NET rather than simply discounting VI Client as a font problem.

VM Ware doesn't display fonts, it's an application. Those applications behave differently due to MANY factors. Or it could simply be whatever hardware you are running Windows 7 on is NOT on the Windows 7 HCL. There could be a myriad of reasons, bottom line is VM Ware is NOT to blame if it only affects a minute amount of users.