Big guns team up to form PC Gaming Alliance.

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

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..

Movers and stinkers from the world of business

Last week, we looked at the geeks who created iconic technologies. This week, we examine the executives who pushed those technologies into becoming the basis of some of the largest businesses in the world.

Analysts praise early numbers, but long-term outlook still up in the air.

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

Latest Parallels release allows Windows apps to launch from Mac desktop.

Latin America design contest zooms in on local demands.

New computing platform seeks to streamline nursing.

Microsoft is cancelling its much-hyped Jerry Seinfeld/Bill Gates advertising campaign. But there's a new "life without walls" ad on the way..

Retail push brings end to sales stands.

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.

Sony is giving users their first glimpse of the upcoming DC Universe online game. And it's for both PS3 and PC (sorry, no Xbox).

Environmental activist organization Greenpeace has made IT giant Hewlett Packard its latest target..

The United States government is pressing China to reconsider its mandate on web filtering software..

Didn't download SP1 in March? Feeling lazy? Now the big Vista update is appearing in bite size chunks via automatic update.

Chipmaker baulks at single-platform demand.

Entertainment platform to be phased out.

Company credits Vista and Office for $17.4bn revenues.