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问题     Competitors complain that Microsoft’s recent settlement of their antitrust case with the federal government will do little to protect them or consumers from the software giant’s monopoly power. But they hold out hope that state attorney generals could make the deal more restrictive. "My guess is that all Bill Gates could do was to suppress a big grin when he held his press conference this morning," said Mitchell Kertzman, chief executive of Liberate Technologies, a rival provider of software for interactive TV. "This settlement doesn’t come close to matching the scope of the violations of antitrust law that Microsoft has been convicted of," he added. "It was an inexplicably bad deal for the government."
    Microsoft and the Justice Department presented the settlement to a federal judge Friday, saying it would end the antitrust case in a way that would help the sagging economy. U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly agreed to review it and gave the 18 states involved in the case until Tuesday to decide whether to accept the plan.
    Several competitors called on the state attorney generals to insist on making changes to the settlement. Sun Microsystems general counsel, Michael Morris, said the Justice Department was "walking away from a case they had already won." Paul T. Cappuccio, the general counsel for AOL Time Warner, said the settlement "Does too little to promote competition and protect consumers, and can too easily be evaded by a determined monopolist like Microsoft."
    The state attorney generals had been pressing for stiffer penalties, but on Friday, several said progress had been made. Among the key elements of the settlement, Microsoft would have to:
    Help rivals make products compatible with the Windows operating system, which runs 91% of the world’s computers.
    Stop using exclusive deals with computer sellers to put competitors at a disadvantage.
    Let three in-house, independent experts monitor its compliance.
"We’re quite disappointed. We believe there are a lot of issues that haven’t been addressed, said Michael Mace, chief officer of handheld computer maker Palm, which makes an operating system that competes with one from Microsoft. Several tech executives said the settlement was too focused on restricting Microsoft’s Windows monopoly, and not its broader business practices and non-PC initiatives.
    "This is a reward, not a remedy. It fails to terminate the illegal monopoly and fails to unfetter the market from anticompetitive conduct," said Kelly Jo MacArthur, general counsel for RealNetworks, which makes music and video software threatened by Windows Media Player."This agreement allows a declared illegal monopolist to determine, at its sole discretion, what goes into the monopoly operating system in the future," she added.
We can infer from the teit that the main issue behind Microsoft’s antitrust case is the need______.
选项 A、to boost a sagging economy
B、to limit the reach of Microsoft’s Windows operating system
C、to prevent Microsoft from monopolizing the computer industry
D、for Microsoft to assist its competitors in making products compatible with Windows
答案C
解析 属信息推断题。文章第一段第一句指出：竞争对手抱怨微软最近和联邦政府达成的反托拉斯案件的协议对保护他们和消费者免受这个软件巨人的垄断控制起不了什么作用。倒数第二段最后一句又补充道：数位技术管理人员说这个协议只着重于限制微软视窗的垄断，而没有考虑到它更广泛的经营活动以及个人计算机以外的创新业务。由此可知，选项C正确，反托拉斯案件的背后主题应该是防止微软垄断整个计算机工业。
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