Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates (news - web sites) took the witness stand on Monday for the first time in his company's epic antitrust case to warn that sanctions sought by nine states would set the Windows operating system back a decade, harming consumers and the computer industry. Maintaining a smile that contrasted with unflattering video clips played at the original trial, Gates kept his cool under hours of questions from a states' attorney who accused him of exaggerating any damage from the states' proposals.
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