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>WHY? How different from the Mac is Windows use of its fonts?

There are two kinds of Windows to talk about: Windows 9x and Windows
NT (which include Windows 2000 and XP).  They are each utterly and
completely different from Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X, and utterly different
from each other.

I believe ATM Deluxe used to offer activation in Windows 9x. In
Windows NT, I have heard it said that Windows doesn't make this
possible. 

But that's at a system level. There is no reason why an *application*
can't choose to offer this. In some cases an application's plug-in
might be able to do it, but that is really up to the application.

> All this talk about how Windows and the Mac are practially the same

They can be made to look similar, just as you can get in any car and
drive it. That doesn't make the parts in the engines interchangeable! 

> but this really brings down the entire graphic design and printing industry on the Windows side.

There is a far more serious design flaw with Windows fonts, as
compared to Mac OS X: fonts are all considered a system resource,
rather than allowing per-user fonts. This makes sharing a workstation
reliably, while allowing font access to each user, a challenge. 

Aandi Inston