Deciding to stay in the "save-XP" camp? This month's Service Pack could be the last, so lets hope it's a good one.

Microsoft is planning to further extend the retail life of Windows XP, adding another six months to the time in which vendors can offer the legacy operating system as an option with new computers..

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

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

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..

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

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.

Microsoft has begun offering the final pre-release version of its upcoming Windows 7 operating system..

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

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

Fixes for multimedia tool and image organiser.

Update addresses 86 vulnerabilities in the OS, plus 13 in Safari - and who said Mac's were the safest?.

MacOS, Safari get updates.

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

Documents rendered unreadable in the event of a breach or hardware theft.

Some of the people on this list are successful billionaires, Some Nobel prize winners or high-tech nomads. However, some individuals are weird even by geek standards.

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..