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..

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.

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

Windows boss Jim Allchin backtracks on security remarks.

Global prices for Vista Ultimate and Home Premium to fall by up to 40 per cent.

OEMs continue to offer 'downgrades' to XP.

Update fixes media player for 'most versions' of Vista.

The formal release of Windows 7 is still months away, but the new operating system is already being given the thumbs-up by industry analysts..

Patch fixes corruption problems.

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

Study claims update will provide little speed enhancement.

Vista and XP updates will be pushed to users automatically, whether you like it or not.

Update for Windows Defender among 20 patches in monthly update.

Update provides a 'smoother experience'.

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

Controversial passage on activation updated to allow device transfers.

Now you see it, now you don't. XP and Vista service packs delayed by "compatibility issue"..

Redmond names incompatible applications.

A new report is predicting a slow market for enterprise adoption of Microsoft's upcoming Windows 7 release..

Testing of release candidate not helped by beta upgrade, say developers. Testers have been told to turn around and go back to Vista for better results.