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..

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.

Stuart Turton spends the second day of his one week odyssey with Linux, battling Fedora and DVD playback troubles, while trying valiantly not to go back to the relative 'safety' of Vista, as frustrations start to boil over.

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.

Apple’s MacBook Pro is a design masterpiece, even if its brilliance is marred by a few annoying niggles.

Stuart Turton spends the third day of his one week odyssey with Linux, fighting Fedora monitor hassles, wishing for Ubuntu at work and discovers that forums can be a Linux user's new best friend.

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Stuart Turton spends the fourth day of his one week odyssey with Linux, hailing the ease of GIMP, before a graphics card meltdown destroys his desktop and forces him to rethink his next move.

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..

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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?

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

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

Parallels is making Windows applications on the Mac an even more seamless experience with the release of Desktop 5 for Mac, which adds support for Windows 7 and a new Crystal view mode that gives Windows applications a more Mac-like appearance.

Microsoft has said it is investigating an issue nicknamed the "black screen of death", which has affected users following a security update

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..

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