Mark Hamburg: from Adobe to Microsoft

While many developers might not know Mark Hamburg from Adobe, saying that he's one of the designers of Photoshop (among with Thomas Knoll) will immediately ring a bell.

Starting recently, he is now working for Microsoft and helping design the Expression line of products. Also, for you photographers out there, Mark was one of the main designers for the Lightroom product, which I've learned to love.

Personally, I believe this is a blow to Adobe, even though they say otherwise in their corporate blog. At the same time, this is a big win to Microsoft, since they have a new product line that is going to be important for the company and many developers and graphics designers. Having a guy like Mark on the team will make sure that those "wow" effects should keep on coming.