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Times New Roman was designed for the print era, and Calibri for onscreen viewing. Onscreen viewing is a lot more common today. Based on that technical characteristic, I'd be kind of inclined to favor Calibri or at least some screen-oriented font.
That being said, screens are also higher-resolution than they were in the past, so the rationale might be less-significant than it once was.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calibri
I suspect that the Office shift is probably a large factor in moving to Calibri.
That being said, there are many Times New Roman implementations, but it sounds like Calibri is owned by Microsoft, so I'd be kind of inclined to favor something open.
I personally think that serif fonts are easier to read, especially with differentiating between l and I.
I use Google's Noto Sans as my default browser sans-serif font. It does a better job having a different capital-I and lower-case-l than does Calibri:
http://www.identifont.com/differences?first=Noto+Sans&second=Calibri