This interview with Microsoft Corp.'s chief Linux strategist surprised me because it's not full of FUD, but rather an insightful look at Microsoft's views of their competition than what we have normally seen in the past. Glad to see that Taylor has figured out that throwing FUD to the media is not going to help Microsoft compete with Linux. Note that Taylor predicts Novell will be their biggest Linux competitor with SUSE given their ability to port over NetWare suite of applications. I read recently on Novell's site that they intend to support their existing NetWare platform completely while offering the same services through SUSE. But I wouldn't be surprised to find out that their long term strategy is to eventually drop the existing NetWare platform line in favor of running everything off of SUSE.