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Microsoft employees do not recognize themselves in the government’s suits in the Microsoft cafeteria in Redmond, Washington. The

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问题     Microsoft employees do not recognize themselves in the government’s suits in the Microsoft cafeteria in Redmond, Washington. The governments antitrust suit against the company is frequently discussed among people who (like me) have no inside knowledge of what is actually going on in the negotiations. Slate, the online magazine I edit, is owned by Microsoft, so discount anything I say accordingly as you please. But having lived and worked among them for four years, I have found the attitude of folks inside the company pretty interesting, and maybe you will too. Not people like Bill Gates, or those who write the legal briefs and press releases, but the ordinary software developer in the cafeteria. Call him the Mall in the plaid Flannel Shirt.
    He or she is, above all, aggrieved. The grievance was well expressed by a midlevel manager when AI Gore "was on campus" a few months ago. At a Q & A session, he told the Vice President, in essence: I have been a Democrat all my life, because I believe in the values the Democratic Party represents. But also work very hard, and I believe that the work I do is helping make life better for people. Yet now my government is telling me that the work I do is actually harmful. So should I believe my government is wrong, or should I believe I’m devoting my life to hurting people?
    Fortunately for Gore, he was able to duck the question on the ground that he couldn’t comment on an active lawsuit. If Gore had wanted to be mean, he might have asked how many stock options that interrogator had and whether that number has any impact on his decision to come to work every day. The human capacity for grievance is deep and universal. Even among these most rational members of the species, grievance seems immune to the reality that "unfair to Microsoft" is the world’s least sympathetic evidence, even if it’s true.
    However, it surely counts for something that the typical softy truly doesn’t recognize himself or his work in the description of Microsoft, promulgated by the company’s critics. He probably hasn’t read the legal documents in the case, and is unqualified to judge the legal issues anyway. Even hardened criminals may concoct some innocent rationale for their crimes and believe it themselves. So the fact that my colleagues feel innocent doesn’t mean they are innocent. But it surely complicates the issue. These people honestly believe they are promoting innovation, and they genuinely sense rivals at every turn. If the company is a complacent monopoly ruthlessly suppressing innovation, it has somehow become that way even though the people who constitute it are not.
    It was the day after Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson’s findings of fact last November if one moment crystallized the bitterness here. Which, despite its label, was widely interpreted as meaning that Microsoft was "gonna get nailed (折磨)." Newspapers across the country carried pictures of the Department of Justice litigators (上诉人) laughing about the judge’s ruling. For the competitive Microsoft types, this was rubbing salt in the wounds. And it confirmed their suspicion that the government was unfairly "out to get" them. It’s one thing for all official agencies to conclude solemnly that you have violated a vague and complex law.
What is the author’s attitude toward the Microsoft case?
选项 A、He thinks Microsoft is innocent.
B、He believes the government is unfair to Microsoft.
C、He believes Microsoft has broken the law definitely.
D、He believes Microsoft is not innocent though there are still many uncertainties.
答案D
解析 本题考查考生根据文章中具体内容对作者观点总结归纳的能力。作者用顽固犯罪分子的例子暗示，微软人员虽然自认为是无辜的，而且目前许多问题还未确定，但实际上微软是有问题的。所以，D为正确答案。
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