The nine states' proposal ``would imperil Microsoft's business and technology model, depriving the marketplace of the primary benefits that Windows provides and thereby greatly devaluing the product,'' Gates said.
Isn't their business model based upon the illegal maintenance of their desktop monopoly?

By referring to the settlement only in passing, Gates may avoid being questioned about it under rules that confine cross-examination to the scope of the direct testimony.
156 pages and he only referred to the settlement "in passing"? Then what is contained in all of those pages?

If the material contained within those pages doesn't address the issues, and allow for cross-examination, will the judge consider it?