Ballmer dropped from witness list
C|Net | at | by Mike
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer will not testify as expected in the ongoing antitrust trial, Microsoft said on Friday. Ballmer was expected to testify in opposition to a proposed states' remedy that could strip software code out of Windows XP. Ballmer's testimony would have followed up testimony from Chairman Bill Gates, who spent three days on the witness stand last week. Now scheduled to testify on Microsoft's behalf are: Jim Allchin, the senior executive in charge of Windows; Linda Averett, a product unit manager in charge of the Windows Digital Media Platform; John Bennett, a computer science professor at the University of Colorado; and Kenneth Elzinga, a professor of economics at the University of Virginia.