Microsoft on Friday released its witness list for the coming week, but it appears to lack the star power seen earlier in the courtroom. Testimony by Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates dominated most of the sixth week in court during a proceeding that could eventually determine a remedy for the software giant's antitrust violations. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is still identified as a witness, but he is not on the schedule next week. The testimony is expected to go for at least two more weeks.

On deck for the remedy proceeding's seventh week: Gregg Sutherland, Qwest Communications' senior vice president of corporate strategy; Robert Short, a Microsoft corporate vice president responsible for the Windows OS kernel; Richard Fade, Microsoft's senior vice president responsible for relationships with original equipment manufacturers; Stuart Madnick, a professor of engineering with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Will Poole, vice president of Microsoft's Digital Media division; and Linda Averett, a product unit manager with Microsoft's Windows Media Platform division.