In a break for Microsoft, California assistant attorney general Tom Greene said in court during a videotaped interview that if Microsoft were to allow PC makers to choose the software features they wanted, the company would be forced to test every potential software configuration.
Greene's admission confirmed what Microsoft argued earlier in its remedy hearing -- that such testing would be implausible due to its potential volume. The software company has said it does not now test every possible Windows configuration.
But the nine holdout states have asked the court to compel Microsoft to issue a stripped-down version of Windows, claiming that what would be left of the operating system could still function properly.
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