Microsoft Class Action Suit Outcome: Indifference

Ec|ipse writes points out that only about 7 percent of eligible Californians have decided to take Microsoft up on their settlement claims resulting from a class action suit in that state, writing "Microsoft contends that it's because the software giant is so popular with consumers." Eclipse excerpts from the press release on Yahoo! (from Settlement Recovery Center, a company that "helps businesses participate in class action settlements"): "With only two weeks remaining until the January 8 deadline, fewer than one million claims have been filed, out of some fourteen million eligible, for a share of the $1.1 billion fund arising out of the Microsoft class action settlement in California."

Comments

Cat got your tongue?

[gulfan]

Did it ever occur to them that every time we try signing up for the class action lawsuit, when we hit submit iexplorer.exe gives us a general protection fault? That seven percent must be the Mozilla users.

Re:The Microsoft Gap

[BHearsum]

Mod parent up, he likes DVORAK

Not publicity, paranoia

[Anonymous Coward]

In our small company's case, it just did not make economic sense to file this.
MS Windows OS licenses: 5 x $16 rebate = $80
MS Office Suite licenses: 1 x $29 rebate = $29
BSA raid on our company: 1 x -$10,000 fine = -$10,000
Total: -$9,891

I'm guessing there are a lot of other people and companies that this did not make economic sense for either.