CAREER HIGHLIGHTS:
Since joining Intel in 1985, McGeady has led several major software initiatives for the chipmaker, starting with software development for Intel's i960 "embedded" microprocessor. In 1991 he helped establish the Intel Architecture Labs in Portland, Ore. There, he led the development of video compression technology and the Intercast technology for broadcasting Web pages, as well as Intel's Internet and Java development efforts. For the past year, he has headed Intel's health-care technology initiative.

EXPECTED TO TESTIFY:
McGeady's testimony will shed light on the inner workings of computerdom's most powerful duo. Together, Microsoft and Intel -- or "Wintel" as they are collectively known -- have ruled the computer industry for the past decade. So McGeady could provide some of the most damaging evidence against Microsoft. His testimony will paint the software maker, and Bill Gates in paticular, as an arrogant partner that became enraged when Intel funded software development efforts that undermined Microsoft's own goals for Windows.

The government is particularly interested in a 1995 meeting of Microsoft and Intel executives. At that meeting, the government alleges, Microsoft tried to coerce Intel into dropping multimedia software development efforts, including a technology called native signal processing and Java software. Intel abandoned NSP and, although it offers Java software, it doesn't publicize it.