Microsoft Settles Minnesota Antitrust Suit

An anonymous reader writes "According to the Star Tribune: 'The Microsoft antitrust suit in Minnesota was settled out-of-court Monday seven weeks after it began, but before the plaintiffs even finished putting on their case before the jury. Terms of the settlement won't be disclosed until they are finalized and presented to a Hennepin County judge for preliminary approval 'in early summer,' Microsoft said in a statement. The antitrust suit in Hennepin Country District Court sought as much as half a billion dollars from Microsoft for alleged overcharges of more than 1 million Minnesota consumers and businesses who bought Microsoft Windows, Word or Excel software between 1994 and 2001.'"

Comments

Good thing

[Anonymous Coward]

Or else Minnesota may have sent Brock Lesnar and Jesse Ventura after them. They could easily beat Gates and Ballmer in a tag match.

A shame...

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm from Minnesota and lived there during those times, furthermore I used lots of Microsoft software... it's a shame I didn't pay for all of it.

Re:Only 1 million consumers in minnesota?

[DaHat]

You've never been to the Minneapolis area have you?

The settlement

[Anonymous Coward]

Microsoft will give Minnesota 700,000 copies of Microsoft Bob.

Re:Sigh

[strictnein]

Fargo is in North Dakota. You betcha.

Re:What is Minnesota doing...

[Anonymous Coward]

I think you mean a precedent - oh wait - MS already run this country, maybe you are right :(

MG