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WASHINGTON (AP) - Microsoft used newly disclosed evidence Thursday to
raise questions at its antitrust trial about how a rival executive
described under oath the dwindling health of his company because of its
battle with Microsoft. James Barksdale, the chief executive officer of
Netscape Communications Corp., testified in federal court in October that
Microsoft had crippled his ability to distribute Internet software. But
weeks later, in a far healthier assessment, Netscape told its investment
bankers its software was included on more than one-fifth the machines sold
by the nation's computer makers and given away by almost one-fourth of the
20 largest Internet providers. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559791845-ccb

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (Reuters) - A closely watched antitrust trial
pitting software giant Microsoft Corp. against a small Connecticut
firm, Bristol Technology Inc., opened in federal court on Thursday.
U.S. District Judge Janet Hall gave both sides 15 minutes to present
opening arguments, and then allowed Bristol to call its first witness
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Ken Blackwell, the company's chief technical officer and co-founder.
Bristol's suit alleges that Microsoft has stifled competition by
controlling access to its Windows NT source code - a charge that the
Redmond, Wash.-based Microsoft hotly disputes. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559788926-b54

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