Settlement Benefits

If this Settlement is approved, Class Members will be eligible to receive up to a total maximum amount of approximately $37.8 million in vouchers. By mailing or submitting a Claim Form online by April 23, 2007 (or a later date, if extended by the Court), a Class Member will be eligible to receive a voucher or vouchers in the amounts indicated below, which can later be redeemed for cash if the Class Member purchases Qualifying Hardware or Qualifying Software after September 7, 2006. If the total amount of your voucher(s) is less than $950, you may also redeem your voucher(s) for the purchase of printers, monitors, scanners, keyboards, mice and other pointing devices. If the total amount of your voucher(s) is $950 or more, you may redeem your voucher(s) for the purchase of printers, monitors, scanners, keyboards, mice and other pointing devices only in connection with the purchase of a computer. If the Settlement is approved, the following vouchers will be available for each license that a Class Member acquired in the United States between January 1, 1998 and December 31, 2004 for use in Arkansas:

• A voucher for $12.00 for each license of Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 98 Second Edition or Windows Millennium Edition (specified in Appendix A-1 of the Settlement Agreement).
• A voucher for $5.00 for each license of Office, Word, Excel, Home Essentials, Works Suite (specified in Appendix A-2 of the Settlement Agreement).
• A voucher for $5.00 for each license of MS-DOS, Windows versions 1.0 to 3.2, Windows for Workgroups, Windows NT Workstation, Windows XP Home, Windows XP Professional, and Windows 2000 Professional (specified in Appendix A-3 of the Settlement Agreement).

The parties realize that not everyone entitled to Settlement Benefits will request a voucher. Accordingly, Microsoft will provide half the value of the unclaimed Settlement Benefits to help Arkansas's neediest public school districts - those with at least 50% of their students qualifying for the federal free and reduced-price school lunch programs. These Arkansas public school districts will receive vouchers to use on a wide variety of computer hardware, software and professional development services.

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