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Microsoft Corp.'s widely used Internet Explorer Web browser could become buggy and unpredictable under an antitrust remedy proposed by nine state attorneys general, an attorney for the company argued in federal court Monday. Microsoft attorney Michael Lacovara was questioning for the second day economist Carl Shapiro, hired by the states to explain the consumer benefits and market effects of their broad proposals to remedy Microsoft 's antitrust violations.

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