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Gates Claims Remedies Would Cripple Microsoft
Thor Olavsrud

Taking the stand for the first time on behalf of the company he helped found more than 20 years ago, Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates Monday testified that some of the remedy provisions sought by nine states in a 3 1/2-year-long antitrust case would cripple Microsoft and force it to pull the Windows operating system from the market. "The practical effect of [the states' provisions] would be to cripple Microsoft as a technology company," Gates wrote in 155 pages of written testimony submitted Monday before he took the witness stand....

 


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