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."

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Re:More Money for the ones that Do File?

[Anonymous Coward]

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that's because...

[Goeland86]

Californians can't be bothered. It's the same problem with car recalls... The car dealers recall them, but people never bring them back to be fixed. I hate to say it, but Californians are just plain lazy. They don't want to wait for something to be ready, it all has to be instantaneous (try explaining that in France cheese takes over a year to mature), and you have to be able to buy it with money. This is from southern california, I can't speak for the rest of the state, but this is what I've seen. And I'm not eligible because I moved in the state after the settlement. I hope this explains it plain and simple. People here do not like Microsoft, they just don't know of anything else, so they stick with it, like too many people. They hate it, but they're too lazy to find an alternative.