Movers and stinkers from the world of business

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..

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.

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.

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.

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

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

From Silicon Valley to Station X during the Second World War, why Romania is teeming with software developers, and Zhongguancun in China where Microsoft is building its Chinese headquarters.

Unless you've been living in a cave for the last week, you've witnessed the wholesale hysteria being launched over the recent Swine Flu outbreak..

Ever wondered which of your favourite Sci-fi films still holds up? Ian Thomson and Shaun Nichols looked at classics such as Jurrassic Park, War Games and The Matrix and found a few surprsies..

Cyber crooks take attacks offline.

Cyber crooks take attacks offline.

Ah the irony. Battling the IE giant, Mozilla sets a "World record" event to publicise the new Firefox 3, only to see its servers swamped and downloads slow to a crawl.

Rootkit-laden video is latest to exploit Tibet protests.

E-book to be sold through Waterstone's.

Company lays out idea of 'conceptual search' for the internet of 2019.

Dancing baby sets legal landmark.

Experts sound alarms over early disclosure.

Proposed buyout will get messy, but could have big rewards.

New super thin notebook comes with 64GB SSD, multitouch, and amazingly it doesn’t cost the earth.