The timing couldn’t be more ironic. The day before Amazon announced its latest eReader, one of Microsoft’s foremost champions of screen-based reading revealed he’d be leaving the company.Bill Hill, eBook champion, leaves Microsoft | All about Microsoft | ZDNet.com
Bill Hill, the kilt-wearing Scotsman known as the driving force behind Microsoft ClearType, seemingly is another casualty of Microsoft’s latest round of layoffs.
Hill joined Microsoft in 1994. In 1998, he joined a new electronic books project in Microsoft Research, run by then-vice-president Dick Brass. Hill ended up running the Microsoft team that developed ClearType, a font-display technology for computer screen
