According to information released by the Iowa plaintiffs during the trial, the lawsuit covered 7.5 million purchases of Windows and other Microsoft products between May 1994 and June 2006. More than 1,100 Microsoft customers opted out of the suit, but Conlin said that number was a statistically insignificant portion of the overall base of users who made qualifying purchases. "It was just half of half of half a percent of the total number of people affected," she said.

Regarding by the plaintiffs that they had proof Microsoft was violating its 2002 antitrust settlement with the DOJ, Conlin said it's unclear if and when the public may have access to that information. "We did what lawyers are supposed to do, which is turn it over to the U.S. Department of Justice and the Iowa Department of Justice," she said.