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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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ELI5:Why hasn't Microsoft word made Times New Roman the universal font?
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Fonts with serifs (the little embellishments on the end) are great in printed materials, but are harder to read on a computer screen. It's why most of the Internet uses sans-serif fonts, like Arial or Helvetica, and why Word switched the default font from Times New Roman (a Serif font) to Calibri (a sans-serif font) in 2007- Microsoft noticed that people had stopped printing out most Word documents and instead were reading them on a laptop or tablet.