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..

From Silicon Valley to Station X during the Second World War, why Romania is teeming with software developers, and Zhongguancun in China where Microsoft is building its Chinese headquarters.

From Betamax to Amiga, here's a list of those IT innovations that fell under the bulldozer. Some were cruelly robbed of their advantage, others threw it away with bad management

As we bring our Information Overload summit to a close, we have decided to name and rank the biggest culprits for the overload, the issues which more than anything else are causing companies to drown in a deluge of data..

Pretty much every new product gets hyped as a potentially disruptive technology these days, and usually nobody outside of the company's marketing department actually believes it.

The company promises that Windows 7 will be the best version of its operating system yet, critical acclaim has often eluded Redmond. We've decided to count down the ten best products ever to come out of Redmond, from DOS 5 to Flight Simulator and NT 4.0

From the moon landing, to the rise of Apple and Google, we rate the most inspiring technology moments in history.

A fortnight ago we reviewed the worst villains in computing history. But what would a villain be without a hero to battle with?

This week we examine a few of those true 'killer apps,' and what they have meant to computing

Every day it gets hard and harder to keep up. Here is a list of 10 handy tools for increasing workplace efficiency.

Apple computers from the sweetest to the rottenest

Things that make you go aaaargh, including Vista, Bluetooth and other things that may or may not make you mad

From the Commodore 64 to Microsoft vs Apple, we take a look at the top 10 fights in technology history.

From flying cars to hoverboards, and AI to lasers, we delve into 10 technologies from a list of iconic films and find out just how close we are to making each a reality

We've all had great ideas in idle moments that are either forgotten or impractical, but these are people who identified technological advances and made them happen..

We take a look back at the tech products that were so overdone by marketing hype, that by the time they were released, most failed to meet expectations.

Every industry has its share of villains, and the computing world is no different.

Can you imagine a time when computers didn't have GPUs? Here are graphics technologies that helped take computing out of the lab and into the hands of consumers and professionals

For every way that the web has improved life, it has also made things more complicated, frustrating and dangerous..