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..

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.

Movers and stinkers from the world of business

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

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.

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.

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

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.

New version of player guns for the iPhone crowd.

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..

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..

Windows boss Jim Allchin backtracks on security remarks.

Spam botnet using fake news to lure victims.

Arizona plant to produce 45nm chips.

Discoveries could allow data to be stored on individual atoms.

Pirated movies beginning to appear on P2P networks.

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)..

Company to offer more details on ordering.

Experts give early word on simulated attack.

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