Vendor to support XP Home and Media Center Edition for an extra five years.

Company continues to increase market share.

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..

Flash drives may not take off until 2013.

Experts give early word on simulated attack.

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

Company cuts deal with California Attorney General.

Latest version of open-source browser released.

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..

The 3.0.7 update for the browser promises multiple security patches as well as stability fixes.

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

SuiteTwo could serve as a portal for RSS, wiki and blog services.

Eleven security fixes included.

New apps to 'eliminate communications boundaries'.

Japanese giant to pay $195m in new licensing deal.

Four new colours for tiny music player.

The Mac may enjoy a largely secure existence compared to Windows PCs, but it's not immune. A new malware attack for MacOS X systems has been spotted in the wild.

Climate-modeling cluster to top 67 teraflops.

Profits of $1.58bn on revenue of $9.6bn.

Group resold Microsoft educational products and laundered profits.