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

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..

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

New trick allows users to reverse killer update.

Video sharing site opens to all users.

Viacom not justified in demanding removal of 100,000 videos, says advocacy group.

"Apple is re-inventing the phone" declares CEO.

AMD is looking to expand its Stream project, which uses graphics chip processing cores to perform computing tasks normally sent to the CPU, a process known as General Purpose computing on Graphics Processing Units (GPGPU)..

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.