Details of Microsoft's Settlement With Iowa

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.

Great, I'll be able to...

[Brad1138]

Afford a PS3... Oh, you said "Purchased", nevermind.

Another detail of the settlement

[Anonymous Coward]

Iowa will provide Microsoft with 1 million ears of corn per year for the next 10 years.

Cool! My turn!

[mcrbids]

I can prove that I bought a copy of Windows 98! My registration key is

FCKGW....

Re:Cool! My turn!

[Mayhem178]

FCKGW-RHQQ2-YXRKT-8TG6W-2B7Q8

Christ, is it bad that I can recite that from memory?

(Joke-buster: this is a Windows XP VLK, not a Windows 98 key)

Re:Cool! My turn!

[Anonymous Coward]

I used to work for Gateway, Win XP CD's with product keys beginning with FCKGW were our reward for going through the XP training back in the day (Pre-launch). We were wondering if Microsoft was trying to tell us something with those 5 letters...