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To: Bo Le who wrote (17074)	12/7/2001 3:15:18 PM
From: Tom Hua	Respond to of 19633

Friday December 7, 3:06 pm Eastern Time States Seek Unbundled Version of Windows WASHINGTON (Reuters) - State attorneys general pressing the antitrust case against Microsoft Corp. (NasdaqNM:MSFT - news) on Friday asked a judge to order the software giant to offer a cheaper, stripped-down version of its Windows operating system. The nine states still suing Microsoft pitched the idea to U.S. District Court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly in a filing, outlining a series of antitrust remedies that they say are needed to restore competition to the computer industry in the wake of the company's antitrust violations. The states also asked Kollar-Kotelly to require that Microsoft's Office software is compatible with other software platforms and mandate open-source licensing for the company's Internet Explorer browser. The states are holding out their remedy proposal as an alternative to the settlement Microsoft reached last month with the Justice Department and nine of the other states in the case.