This is the 186 page testimony of Bill Gates from the trial. The 5 page executive summary is available as well.
"My name is William H. Gates III. I am the Chairman of the Board
and Chief Software Architect of Microsoft Corporation. I am a co-founder of Microsoft
and was its Chief Executive Officer from 1986, when the company went public, until
January 2000. I made the decision to relinquish my duties as CEO so that I could spend
more time working with the product groups at Microsoft to develop new technologies that
will be necessary to enable the next generation of computing. My work at Microsoft has encompassed nearly every aspect of the
software business. I have written code and architected software products. In my positions
at Microsoft I have met regularly with the leaders of small and large companies in the
personal computer industry and in related businesses, including companies Microsoft works
with to develop and distribute products, as well as with customers in the business world, in
academia and in government. I closely track trends that might affect Microsoft’s business."
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