Thanks cheekymonkey for this who was unable to post this at the time.
It's been a busy week in court as we've seen Bill Gates take the stand. He's been by turns defensive, evasive and on the attack. Here are some highlights as selected by me.
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. "Certainly there are many, many problems with the states' remedy proposal," said Rich Gray, a Menlo Park, Calif.-based lawyer closely following the nearly 4-year-old case. "Mr. Gates has raised many legitimate problems" with it.
To commingle or not to commingle
The issue of integrating middleware technologies such as Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser with Windows dominated a good chunk of the states' cross-examination of Gates. Microsoft's co-founder repeatedly charged that the states' definition of middleware, which includes the company's Office software, reaches too far. Gray agreed. "There's no question the states' middleware definition is too broad," he said.
News source: ZDnet
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