Microsoft Legal Notice

Radon199 · Post by **Radon199** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 4:51 pm

So ya, I would do it, they know that you have Microsoft products so theres no real way of avoiding it.

Kurt_ · Post by **Kurt_** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 4:54 pm

Mind you, if they want you to send any kind of information like CD Key or that sorta sutff, then it's clearly a scam.

Harshboy · Post by **Harshboy** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 4:57 pm

Just dont do it..........if they do anything, sue them, or ask for all your money back. Also, if Windows came with your Dell PC, it's not your problem, it's Dell's. Tell M$ they can go kill themselves

demonofaj · Post by **demonofaj** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 5:12 pm

I called, and for some reason the most illiterate person had to talk to me..."What's your ISP adress" So I give it to her xxx.xx.xxx.xx (or something like that

, but real one, I'm anynonomous here) and she says no, AOL or Verizon...

So yea, basically she said that I would have to if I wanted Microsoft vouchers, even if I did buy it from Dell, and if I didn't she said straight down to drop XP, meh, screw it, I'll just get this piece of crap of my back....

Harshboy · Post by **Harshboy** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 5:25 pm

What the Hell!!!??? You should contact Dell first.

Kurt_ · Post by **Kurt_** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 5:28 pm

Yeah tech support...

The thing is, there are people in India and China and such palces who have enough experience to be a tech guy, but can be paid a TON less than Canadians or Americans would be.

So they just forward you to India or someplace for those calls.

Harshboy · Post by **Harshboy** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 5:36 pm

Do the internet chat thing (And yeah, i know. When my dad called, we got some india guy)

demonofaj · Post by **demonofaj** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 6:59 pm

Woah, lay off the thoughts! I'm half Indian (that and American/Britian), but I am a tech nerd, why must our destiny be written in stone

psychotic_mechanic · Post by **psychotic_mechanic** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 10:38 pm

I think I read about this on digg a couple weeks back, NY residents were overcharged for computers bundled with windows or something. I think if you qualify you got like $4 or $7 back.

A.J. Franzman · Post by **A.J. Franzman** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 12:22 am

It's a class-action lawsuit settlement. They only want to know what software you have to determine how much money they owe you.

My dad and I got something similar a couple of years ago, and when we filled out the forms, we found that based on what Microsoft software we had purchased, we were each supposed to get a voucher good for $100 credit towards purchase of computer software (note this is any computer software, not just Microsoft). We never got the vouchers though. I think someone at the post office swiped them.

Just read it again and pay attention - it must say exactly what it is and what you need to do, and what happens if you do it (and if you don't). There is no way they can force you to stop using software you already have, whoever told you that was mistaken.

Harshboy · Post by **Harshboy** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 5:00 am

psychotic_mechanic wrote:I think I read about this on digg a couple weeks back, NY residents were overcharged for computers bundled with windows or something. I think if you qualify you got like $4 or $7 back.

wow! 4-7 bucks............

Joes2Silly · Post by **Joes2Silly** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 6:27 am

thats still not very much

Post by **SpongeBuell** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 9:02 am

A.J. Franzman wrote:(note this is any computer software, not just Microsoft).

If that's the case, I would definitely use it to buy a boxed Linux distro... I would love to see Microsoft being required to buy its own competing software which it hates

Krepticor · Post by **Krepticor** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 10:45 am

if this was anything REALLY Serious they would have sent snail mail

just because that is what the legal people use most of the time

Xiro · Post by **Xiro** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 11:16 am

Krepticor wrote:if this was anything REALLY Serious they would have sent snail mail

just because that is what the legal people use most of the time

they did mail it to him, he said that it wasnt email.