That article's totally backwards. The rendering is nothing to do with Google (unless you're viewing on Chrome :P). Microsoft has a fairly good font group internally and has made some great progress.

Google is just getting started (I'm part of the fonts effort there) and there are fairly respected designers involved in the whole effort. Without buying in licenses it will take some time to reach a certain quality level but a lot of the fonts provided are high quality and have received praise as such - the quote implies they're all Wingdings :/