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Microsoft's Ecohero: How Sean Nicholson Is Saving the Earth

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This was mainly because refurbishers couldn't afford to put legal Windows licenses on used equipment. Refurbishers could either pay full price for licenses (and thereby price their equipment out of the market), or use pirated versions of Windows. The PC refurbishment industry was but a small, shadowy thing.

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Nonprofit Technology News: 2013 Year in Review

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It’s a new licensing arrangement in which Adobe products users download the software as they have in the past and use it on PCs, but licensing is on a monthly per-user fee basis. in Namibia is showing the way for providing Internet access in Africa. Adobe Creative Cloud. Adobe Creative Cloud launched this year as well.

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