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 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

Microsoft is offering substantial discount deals on Windows 7 Home Premium packs for families (up to 3 licences) for under $250.

Vendor details editions for Office 2010 along with application virtualisation for testing.

Microsoft has confirmed it has cut a "small percentage", thought to be around 600,000 gamers, off from Xbox Live for modifying their consoles to play pirated games

Microsoft has confirmed that its crime scene computer forensic software Cofee has been leaked onto the net.

Believe it or not, but Microsoft weren't always so web friendly. In fact, it was Bill Gates who initially panned the internet and Microsoft's future in it. So what turned it all around?

Microsoft has taken the unprecedented step of allowing marketers to re-brand its new Windows 7 operating system..

Microsoft has moved quickly to dismiss comments made by one of its managers earlier this week that the Windows 7 user interface was based on that of the Mac operating system..

Windows 7 may be fresh on the shelves, but new job vacancies on the Microsoft website show that work on Windows 8 is already underway

Rumour has it that Microsoft's Project Natal motion-sensing camera for the Xbox 360 is set to launch in November 2010, and not with the high price tag we might have expected

Legal beagles from software bully Microsoft have managed to close down the last public download source for the Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor (COFEE).

Microsoft has never been known to make mistakes in the past, but never was it more apparent than with Vista - and no matter the promises and the hype, Vista never truly delivered.

Protect from malicious software

Partnership could move beyond the US, says Ballmer.

Samsung's Q1 was originally touted as an iPod killer and a UMPC style tablet perfect for travelling business users - but it never worked and it never took off. Why? We may have the answer.

Windows 7 can't stop Mac OS X The latest figures from Net Applications suggest that Windows 7 has failed to attract any interest and the Mac is set to become the dominant operating system in the world

Hungry for new apps for your WinMo phone? Drop by the new browser-based Marketplace for Mobile site

Linux is turning up in everything from netbooks to Dell PCs, but is it actually fit to replace Windows? Stuart Turton spends a week with Linux to find out.

Stuart Turton spends the fifth day of his one week odyssey with Linux, gets his hands dirty with 'Gnome Do' and quickly realises his new found joy for Ubuntu. Has Stuart finally cracked Linux?