The last of the witnesses for Microsoft finished testifying on Friday at hearings to determine whether the company should face tougher penalties than those it agreed to in a proposed settlement of the Justice Department's antitrust case. But after eight weeks of hearings, during which nine states seeking tougher remedies presented 15 witnesses and Microsoft called 18, including the company's chairman, Bill Gates, several key questions in the case remain unresolved. Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly of Federal District Court in Washington, who has little background in either technology or antitrust law, has reserved judgment on the fundamental issue of how broad the scope of a remedy should be.
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