I'm looking forward to seeing more information on the Visual Studio Team System (aka Burton). I think that this is a step in the right direction. As an “architect,” my job is to apply a model-driven approach to problems. I think that VSTS will help promote this quality approach a lot. Automation is the key to model-driven architecture (MDA).
If you haven't already, check out the VSTS team web log. There's only one post (at the time of this posting), but I think that this should be an interesting resource. I'm looking forward to getting some insight on what VSTS will have to offer. For those interested, there's a pretty good video demo available, too.