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..

Buying packs of virtual stamps to send email? Yahoo is proposing a new paid mail service as a way to sidestep spam..

Netscape founder Marc Andreessen is climbing on board a new browser project known as 'Rockmelt.'.

Microsoft has revealed a plan to port its Outlook communications program as part of the upcoming Office for Mac productivity suite..

Redmond takes second shot at iPod killer with pre-orders and pricing revealed for the new Zune HD media player..

A US federal judge has issued a ruling to halt sales of the RealDVD disk-copying tool..

Intel and Nvidia have agreed to a deal which will end the companies' licensing battle.

Via Technologies has introduced a new x86 board design which is capable of operating in extreme temperatures..

The GPU acceleration platform hits new milestone, using the parallel processing abilities of graphics chips to shoulder some of the processing load from the CPU.

Solid state storage vendors have been breaking records with a new generation of solid state drives (SSDs)..

Windows 7 users will have option to move to Premium and Ultimate editions after purchase.

iPhone, Android and Windows Mobile smartphones could be vulnerable to attack warn security experts at a US held BlackHat conference..

Environmental activist organization Greenpeace has made IT giant Hewlett Packard its latest target..

PayPal is planning to open up its online payment service to outside developers..

According to security software firm McAfee, yearly malware growth is on pace to smash records.

Intel are reporting that their new range of 34nm SSDs will help push down the price of older drives.

While more expensive PC's are getting harder to sell, netbooks and cheap systems are showing improved growth.

Out of the HD-DVD ashes, Toshiba is reportely developing a Blu-Ray competitor according to Japanese newspaper reports.

From the dark old days of constant litigation, P2P network Kazaa has re-launched as a pay per month music service.

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.