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Microsoft Hires GUI 'Design Guru'

Posted by Zonk on from the less-shiny-more-sense dept.

overpayd writes "ZDnet is reporting that Microsoft has hired 'user interface guru' Bill Buxton to work as a senior researcher. Will this move help focus the design teams for Vista, Office, etc? From the article: 'My sense is that Microsoft is in transition from an engineering-led company to as much a design-led company ... 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.'"

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  1. They should hire Apple by thecpuguru · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    If Microsoft wants to improve the user experiance of Windows, they should hire the folks over at Apple Computer. After all Windows is just a bad copy of Mac OS that they got from Zerox. What comes around, goes around...