AMD, Autodesk, Onyx Software To Testify For Microsoft Against Revised Remedies

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Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) Chairman and CEO W.J. Sanders is expected to be the first to take the stand Monday, defending Microsoft's right to innovate and integrate its products.

Following Sanders, the software giant is expected to call executives from Autodesk, Opus-I and Onyx, who plan to testify against revised remedies that include a call for Microsoft to ship a stripped-down version of Windows. Autodesk CTO Scott Borduin, for example, is expected to testify that a stripped-down version of Windows would fragment the industry and harm ISVs.

That and other more stringent remedies have been proposed by nine state attorneys general, as well as executives from Sun Microsystems, Palm, Red Hat and Novell, who oppose the proposed settlement agreement Microsoft and the government arrived at last fall. The revised remedies trial began last month.

David Cole, Microsoft's senior vice president of MSN and Personal Services, is also expected to testify over the course of the next few weeks regarding his company's refusal to participate in the Liberty Alliance, an alternative to Microsoft Passport.

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In addition, University of Chicago Business Professor Kevin Murphy is expected to suggest that the revised remedies will hurt consumers.