Microsoft could still use its Windows monopoly to promote its software over rivals' under a proposed settlement of the company's antitrust case, a government prosecutor suggested in court Thursday. Microsoft's Chris Jones, overseer of the Windows operating system, had testified that restrictions his firm could continue to place on PC makers under the settlement are aimed at making computers ''simple and easy.'' Tougher sanctions sought by nine states in the current trial would confuse consumers, he said.
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