From the Dark Side--M$ Trial Soap Opera Continued Tuesday

with more testimony from Microsoft Chair Bill Gates. Unfortunately, it's pretty boring with the Judge severely limiting questioning even more than her own guidelines appear to call for and Gates very obliquely or not answering questions with the Judge's acquiescence. This apparently biased conduct frequently means a judge is leaning against the defendant but not always. The boredom could have been lifted a bit if the states' lawyer had pointed out as did eWeek that Gates' misrepresented the truth with his chart. Here is a SiliconValley.Com summary article and a fairly descriptive Chortler.Com article. [Dana Baggett and Paul Martin]