Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates clearly dominated the courtroom during his three days on the witness stand, legal experts said. But states' attorney Steven Kuney still managed to give the judge in the case some clues as to how an acceptable antitrust remedy could be crafted.
Gates effectively portrayed the states' proposed remedy--which, among other things, would compel Microsoft to sell a stripped-down version of Windows, free of middleware such as browsers or media players--as ambiguous and impossible for the company to comply with.
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