The judge in the Microsoft antitrust case (news - web sites) ruled Tuesday that news organizations can listen to lawyers question technology executives in pretrial depositions unless Microsoft can prove the sessions would reveal confidential information. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly said Microsoft, which argued that depositions should take place privately, was seeking ``an exclusion of the public that plainly exceeds'' limits under another judge's earlier orders.
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