Well this is interesting. Bill Buxton is joining Microsoft to work on HCI (human-computer interfaces). From the C|Net article (Link) comes this intriguing quote:

My sense is that Microsoft is in transition from an engineering-led company to…a design-led company,” he said. “There are more designers at Microsoft on any single team as there were, not too long ago, in the entire company. It’s a wonderful change.

Bill Buxton at Microsoft. That just plain sounds foreign. I’m going to have to give some thought to what that really means.

{Update: Looks like I caught the tip of what was to come: C|Net has now posted an interview with Buxton. Read it at this Link.}