Iowa Court May Order Microsoft Refunds

dowobeha writes: "The Des Moines Register is reporting that thousands of Windows 98 users in Iowa could get $40 refunds from Microsoft. The Iowa Supreme Court has found the big boys from Redmond guilty of price fixing in violation of a 1976 Iowa law. According to the report, this is the first antitrust ruling in any state that favors 'indirect purchasers' (regular consumers who got Windows preinstalled on their newly purchased computer) rather than "direct purchasers" (manufacturers who license Windows to distribute on new machines)."

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Automatons?

[hunterk1]

"We feel that consumers were not injured at all," Desler said. "Consumers have clearly benefited from Microsoft's efforts to improve our products."

Do you ever feel as if most of the suits at Microsoft are brainless marketing Automatons? When they spew the same line time and time again it makes me start to wonder...