The Non-Profit Tech Guru » Uncategorized http://www.albeekara.com The Bleeding Edge of IT from the Non-Profit Trenches Sun, 16 May 2010 17:24:32 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Microsoft Software pricing going up at Tech Soup – Order before July 1! http://www.albeekara.com/2010/05/16/microsoft-pricing-going-up-at-tech-soup-order-before-july-1/ http://www.albeekara.com/2010/05/16/microsoft-pricing-going-up-at-tech-soup-order-before-july-1/#comments Sun, 16 May 2010 17:24:21 +0000 Albee http://www.albeekara.com/?p=282 Microsoft is upping their admin fees for non-profits over at Tech Soup – can’t really understand the logic of it, since it costs them basically nothing to fulfill these orders.

Read more at http://blog.techsoup.org/node/1307

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Anyway, Google’s relationship to power efficiency is explicated here – but it doesn’t really mention their draconian bullying of power companies to get them electricity at cost (or lower).

Don’t get me wrong – I love Google – they offer some great products for free. With great power comes great responsibility, however….

Full article here:

http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2009/05/google-15000-searches-1-cheeseburger-hold-the-fries.ars

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