Installing KB3013455 breaks font rendering on Server 2008 x32

Question

Hi
It appears that after installing KB3013455 none of my fonts render properly anymore.
It causes font display/smoothing/substitution corruption in all applications - I first noticed it in several different browsers, but then just went to Control Panel -> Fonts and confirmed that all fonts (checked a dozen) including Arial and Times New
Roman are affected.
Essentially the small fonts (8-20pt) that normally result in a one-pixel line (think of lowercase "b" or "t" or "d") would now be a random mess between 1 and 2 pixels. Turning on "Clear Type" or font smoothing does
"smooth" the garbage and it doesn't look as awful but that doesn't make the text any more readable.
Actually "font smoothing" didn't quite work as it did not affect the small fonts (which were the affected ones) - only Clear Type smoothed them.
Also, all fonts appeared much smaller - a 16pt font appeared as big as 8pt, and I might be off with the scale but definitely much smaller.
While researching the issue I found that a similar one happened some time ago - the picture posted there also matches somewhat the symptoms I saw:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/520044/unreadable-font-on-gmail-since-recent-updates-in-chromium
Also, the issue seems to apply to XP, Server 2003, Vista and other versions as per
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r29852995-
I noticed this on a Server 2008, x32, with font smoothing and Clear Type turned off, normal font size (96dpi).
The question:
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/3013455 appears to be an important update so I'd appreciate any insights as to what other steps can we take.
Thanks
p.s. I forgot to take screenshots before I uninstalled the update. I'm not sure if you need one - I'd prefer to skip the pain of installing it and rebooting just for the sake of taking a screenshot (and then removing it again and rebooting again), but if
that's a must let me know.

Answer 1

I've done some more testing - Win7 (both x32 and x64) seems to be unaffected.
Vista/2008/2003 (tested 32bit only) are all affected.
Here are some screenshots -
before:
and after: