Expert Witness Says 'Unbound' Windows Impossible
Stuart Madnick, a professor of information technology and engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, testified Thursday that Microsoft would not be able to comply with the states' proposal.

In his written testimony in the U.S District Court case, in which the District of Columbia and nine states that didn't sign on to the settlement between the U.S. Justice Department and Microsoft last year are seeking harsher penalties against the software giant, Madnick said, "The [unbinding] requirement is probably impossible to meet. … I thought of all the possible ways I could think of [to comply] and I could not think of a way to do it."

States' attorney Kevin Hodges later asked Madnick whether Microsoft's Windows XP Embedded product would "be of any assistance" to Microsoft in complying with the unbinding remedy. Madnick said no, adding that "XP Embedded helps to make much clearer the interdependencies among the components in the operating system." He said XP Embedded points out the "glaring" issue of the interdependencies, "but offers no answers" to it.
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