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Details of Microsoft's Settlement With Iowa

Posted by samzenpus on from the pay-up dept.

dringess writes "As reported on Yahoo, Microsoft has settled the suit brought by the State of Iowa. Individuals can collect $16 for each copy of MS-DOS or Windows purchased from 1994-2006, while Office nets $29. No proof of purchase required! Now I can finally get some money from Microsoft!" Here is our original coverage of the settlement.

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  1. you misunderstand this case by RelliK · · Score: 3, Informative
    Now remember kids, the mere action of settling does not technically constitute any kind of admission on Microsoft's part.

    Iowa relied on the federal antitrust ruling of 2000 which already found Microsoft to be an abusive monopolist. The Iowa's case was only about how much Microsoft has to pay as a compensation for breaking antitrust laws.

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  2. Re:Settle != guilty by Vulva+R.+Thompson,+P · · Score: 4, Informative

    Well, the Federal Government says that they absolutely, positively are a monopolist. And they were convicted so it's a forgone conclusion whether they admit to it or not.

    California settled a year or two (or three) ago. I got a nice shiny check for $78 dollars just for filling out a single form and mailing it in. Didn't require many details beyond the number of copies purchased.

    So if there are any Iowans out there, warm up your pens. It's worth doing, not to mention very satisfying.

  3. Read the article a little closer... by jaygridley · · Score: 2, Informative

    This was a class-action lawsuit not a state antitrust case. The only thing the State of Iowa had to do with it was that it was in the Iowa court system.

  4. Surely I don't need to say this but by drachenstern · · Score: 2, Informative

    Businesses are "encouraged" to keep records for at least the past 7 tax/fiscal years. All financially related records.

    The company I work for is a small (12 ppl) firm which resells computers with win2k and msofc 2k3. Therefore we truthfully have PoP for probably (say three+) hundreds of copies of each. That's about $45 * 300+ = $13k+? Too bad we're not in Iowa. That's just if we only had 300 PoPs, and I figure it's probably more than that, but I'm being conservative.

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  5. Mirror Here by geggam · · Score: 2, Informative

    http://edge-op.org/iowa/
    I also have one but I am not about to publish it for a slashdotting.