You may know some folks on my team from either PDC/TechEd, their books, or their standards work:  Don, Chris, Clemens, Chris, Gudge (update your blog), Mr. Schlimmer, and many others...

I can't tell you what we are doing exactly (although if you search around enough, you can read between the lines), but I can tell you that we are hiring.

We need:

• Experienced language designers and/or compiler front-end/back-end developers
• Example:  You designed a language at some other company (or within Microsoft ).
• Example:  You designed and implemented a front-end or back-end for a production compiler at some other company (or within Microsoft).
• "UI framework" developers
• Example:  You have designed and implemented a framework for rich, interactive user experiences at some other company (or within Microsoft).

If you read one of the above examples and thought, "Wow, that describes what I have done or currently do" and you are interested, please send me an email at douglasp@microsoft.com.

We should have positions posted on some external site shortly, but I want to get ahead of the game.