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States want a closer look at antitrust case

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Peter Kaplan

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WASHINGTON: Two of the biggest states party to the government's antitrust

case against Microsoft Corp. warned on Friday they might pursue their own

sanctions against the software giant if they conclude the US Justice Department

is going too easy on the company.

A day after government attorneys said they had dropped the idea of pushing to

break up Microsoft, New York Attorney General Elliot Spitzer and California

Attorney General Bill Lockyer insisted that the government take a close look at

Microsoft's new Windows XP operating system before proposing a new remedy to

rein in the company.

Spitzer and Lockyer, among the most outspoken of

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