Last week, in honour of the Windows 7 launch, we covered Microsoft's biggest successes in the computing field. This week, in the interest of balance, we're looking to the company's dark side..

Apple portables selling twice as fast as the Walkman.

MacOS, Safari get updates.

It isn't Unix unless it's Unix 03 certified.

AMD is looking to expand its Stream project, which uses graphics chip processing cores to perform computing tasks normally sent to the CPU, a process known as General Purpose computing on Graphics Processing Units (GPGPU)..

iPhone soaked up engineering resources, causing 4-month delay for Leopard.

Buying packs of virtual stamps to send email? Yahoo is proposing a new paid mail service as a way to sidestep spam..

Time to ditch the hard drive? Intel's 80GB drives make solid state a tasty option, though they'll probably put a dent in your hip pocket.

Post-Christmas spam decline fails to appear.

Vulnerabilities affect OS X and Windows versions.

Fix does not cover Internet Explorer problem.

Company credits Vista and Office for $17.4bn revenues.

Dramatic growth attributed to new blogs and small business sites.

While more expensive PC's are getting harder to sell, netbooks and cheap systems are showing improved growth.

Microsoft has ended the availability of the Windows 7 beta download. But you've already got your copy, right?.

Security bill heads to president's desk.

Supercomputer tops professional player for first time.

Exchange Online and SharePoint Online betas launch.

Steve Ballmer trumpets 'most secure enterprise platform ever'.

Redmond names incompatible applications.