Meet Microsoft's surgical strike team

No one, Microsoft included, would dispute charges that the Redmond, Wash., software giant is a fierce competitor. In fact, there are a number of different teams throughout Microsoft (msft) whose primary missions are to study and take on its foremost rivals. Microsoft Group Product Manager Doug Miller heads one such unit: the one that watches Linux, Unix and NetWare. Expectedly, Miller has lots to say about Novell (novl), Sun (sunw) and the open-source community. Full story to come. -- Mary Jo Foley, ZDNet News, and Deborah Gage, Sm@rt Partner