Are States loosing ground? YES!
Reuters | at | by Mike
In hearings expected to last eight weeks, Microsoft will portray the states' demands as excessive and try to confine remedies to specific antitrust violations found at trial.
To ensure a competitive market for future software, the states are proposing that Microsoft sell a "modular" version of Windows that would allow computer makers to strip out add-on features like the Internet browser or the media player.
But Kollar-Kotelly has already expressed skepticism about the breadth of the states' argument, and has been receptive to Microsoft's contention that devices like hand held computers and media players should be excluded.