Four witnesses remain on Microsoft's witness list, so testimony could conceivably wrap up as early as next week. Once testimony concludes, the litigating states will have an opportunity to offer some sort of rebuttal. The trial begins its eighth week of testimony on Monday. Poole at Bay Will Poole, vice president of Microsoft's Windows Media Division, took the witness stand on Thursday and is expected to finish up on Monday. Like other witnesses, he submitted written testimony to the court before being cross-examined. In some respects, Poole's testimony did not go well for Microsoft. During cross-examination, states' attorney John Schmidtlein introduced Microsoft e-mails that suggested company executives in 1999 set out to tackle RealNetworks using a similar strategy taken against Netscape Communications, now owned by AOL Time Warner. As in its earlier battle with Netscape during the so-called browser wars, Microsoft trailed RealNetworks both in technology and market share.