Ballmer Unlikely to Testify in Microsoft Case
Reuters | at | by Mike
Microsoft Corp. is expected to pull Chief Executive Steve Ballmer from the list of defense witnesses scheduled to testify in its antitrust case, company officials said on Friday. Microsoft is likely to notify a federal judge presiding over the case that Ballmer will not be among the remaining handful of witnesses summoned to argue against severe antitrust sanctions sought by nine states against the software giant, the officials said.
A decision to pull Ballmer would mean that "they're very confident in their case," said Robert Litan, director of economic studies at the Brookings Institution. "They're reading of the tea leaves is that the judge is not going to go further than the Justice Department settlement," Litan said.