A proposal greatly restricting Microsoft's businesses practices had the company's competitors and some industry trade groups singing the praises of nine state attorneys general on Friday. AOL Time Warner, Sun Microsystems and several trade groups backed by Microsoft, such as ProComp, rallied behind the states filing the proposal. The remedy would compel Microsoft to open the source code of Internet Explorer, carry Sun's Java with Windows and sell a stripped-down version of the operating system, among other things.
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