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How much research have you done so far? How committed are you to achieving this? I ask because your question is worded in such a way to suggest you've just had the idea and want ot…

In some traditions it isn't how much you give away but how much it costs you personally that counts.

The headline is a bit misleading - they never had shared services in the first place but decided to not jump straight to an outsourced model. They have an IT team of 3 people that …

See also: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5023123 (Do you think the desktop is dead?)

Me too - I wrote a Mandlebrot generator on the Amstrad CPC 6128 (3.7MHz Z80 based computer with 128kb RAM) after reading a copy of "Chaos" by James Gleick that I found in the schoo…

I said better! :-) no seriously, the desktop in Win 8 hasn't changed and the metro side doesn't make the most of the graphics processing power or real estate of a desktop machine.

I'd like to think we are going to see a new wave of innovation on the desktop - web apps have been catching up to a mostly static target but perhaps now there will be enough impetu…

We do have one working for us and this has worked out well. I think you might have a point in your use of the word "targeting" - it raises possibilities of advertising and targette…

I can't comment for the US as I'm based in the UK but I have been thinking about this problem from a recruitment point of view as I muse on long term directions for the company I w…

Don, would you be willing to share a bit in future posts about how you grew the team, how you organised yourselves and how that changed over the course of the project? Also, what t…