AOL Executive Testifies for Microsoft Sanctions

An AOL Time Warner Inc. executive asked a federal judge to envision a world in which personal computers could be tailored to the interests of particular users such as children, sports enthusiasts or music lovers and branded by companies such as Disney or Lego. Testifying in the third week of hearings on how Microsoft Corp. should be sanctioned for breaking antitrust laws, AOL Vice President John Borthwick said that giving computer makers and others the ability to customize the Windows operating system with non-Microsoft applications and branding would loosen the software giant's operating-system monopoly.