Iowa Court May Order Microsoft Refunds

Posted by timothy on Thursday June 13, 2002 @08:23AM from the prime-winners-are-the-lawyers dept.

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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Re:Wow.... by nuOpus · 2002-06-13 08:34 · Score: -1, Redundant

And to think that this is what happens after they released Windows98 in Iowa. Maybe the people of iowa should start a lawsuite to get the Windows 98SE release ready for refund!
Automatons? by hunterk1 · 2002-06-13 09:12 · Score: 0, Redundant

"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...