The government's technical expert testified Tuesday that Microsoft could create a Windows version stripped of add-on products without breaking the dominant PC operating system.
''Microsoft has already done much of the engineering work necessary,'' said Andrew Appel, a computer science professor at Princeton University.
Nine states want a federal judge to make Microsoft produce a stripped-down Windows after an appeals court ruled that the giant illegally protected the near-monopoly software from competition. The company would also have to disclose Windows' code, so rival products work well with the system, among other sanctions.
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