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

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..

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

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.

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

Wireless in-car connectivity centres are gaining popularity thanks to 3G and burgeoning 4G services. We take a look at a couple of the bigger examples and investigate how they're changing the way we drive.

Fantastic news for system builders and overclockers: ESA, the Enthusiast System Architecture is a new open standard to allow sensors inside computer systems to report back to the user from power supplies, fans & water coolers.

A few weeks ago we asked for your eBay stories, and we’ve received a lot of responses about bad sellers, demanding buyers and more.

Open source and virtualization and support in processors to push technologyto the next level.

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..

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

Intel has officially launched its first Nehalem-based Xeon chips for servers and workstations, bringing increased performance and greater power efficiency in the biggest overhaul of the Xeon platform for years.

Lose the operating system, gain security and stability, firm argues.

We gaze into a crystal ball and and ponder the future, or possible demise, of some well-known technologies.

If like us you’re pretty fed up with the way system maintenance apps dump on the 64-bit Windows user, you’ll appreciate this.

System p5 595 described as a 64-core 'speed demon'.

Sandisk has announced its new Vaulter Disk system accelerator, which provides a special system cache in the form of Flash memory.

Next operating system 2 to 2.5 years out.