If Microsoft Corp. split up its Windows operating system so computer manufacturers could choose which features they wanted, the software company would still have to test every possible configuration, a state official says.
The admission, made during a videotaped interview with Microsoft lawyers, matches arguments made by Microsoft earlier in its antitrust remedy hearing. Microsoft has said such testing would be impossible. The nine states still pursuing penalties against the company want to let computer manufacturers remove Microsoft Internet Explorer and other features of Windows and substitute competing software.
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