Any Relief in Sight for IE10's Degraded Font Rendering?

IE10 has been a part of Windows 8 in both preview and released form for a long time, and Microsoft still hasn't fixed the botched font rendering.

There's a reason the people who invented ClearType put in the color-assist.  It effectively triples your monitor's horizontal resolution by lighting up individual columns of red, green, blue. It's just NOT THERE in IE10 on Windows 8. 

Been wondering why you're feeling more eye strain?  Now you know.  Look at it closely with the Magnifier application if you don't believe me.  Compare text rendered inside IE with that in menus or other apps.

There is a ClearType Text Tuner dialog provided by Windows that could be used to dial it down or even turn it off, for those who didn't like the color, for versions prior to IE10.  Now Microsoft has forced the NO COLOR decision on every Windows 8 user, regardless of the ClearType tuner setting.  Color assist is OFF and you can't turn it on.

Why?

Maybe it's being done to support the Surface or other tablets (e.g., so rotations can be done graphically without forcing a repaint or something).  Fine.  Microsoft also sells Windows 8 with IE10 to run on the billion or so actual computers with 100ish ppi monitors already out there in the world (that don't rotate), right?  So make it configurable.  It already worked (andstill works with the IE10 RP on Windows 7) - it's not like something new has to be invented.  It's not even consistent in different parts of IE10, as you can see above!

What's the point in delivering a font rendering scheme that is blurred and inconsistent by comparison to the prior version or other browsers (or even IE10 on Windows 7)? Since when is "almost as good" good enough?  It's not like it never worked before.  IE has been about faithfully maintaining compatibility with past browsers, but apparently not in this.

IE10 RP on Windows 7 has the color-assist, and it follows the ClearType tuner setting.  Will Microsoft attempt to degrade Windows 7 through Windows Update by releasing the final version of IE10 without it?  Let's hope not.

-Noel