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..

From the Commodore 64 to Microsoft vs Apple, we take a look at the top 10 fights in technology history.

We gaze into a crystal ball and and ponder the future, or possible demise, of some well-known technologies.

Movers and stinkers from the world of business

This feature is for anyone who's finished a working day with the horrible sense of dissatisfaction that things didn't go to plan, that you've been ineffective. That you just didn't do all the things you wanted to.

A few weeks ago we asked for your eBay stories, and we’ve received a lot of responses about bad sellers, demanding buyers and more.

The company promises that Windows 7 will be the best version of its operating system yet, critical acclaim has often eluded Redmond. We've decided to count down the ten best products ever to come out of Redmond, from DOS 5 to Flight Simulator and NT 4.0

Industries keeping a sweet outlook during these sour times.

For every way that the web has improved life, it has also made things more complicated, frustrating and dangerous..

Still not sure whether it's worth upgrading to Vista? We put XP and Vista through the ultimate face-off.

To honour John Hughes, we've listed tech movies that give you all an excuse to sit down with a DVD or two and enjoy tech in the movies..

We take a look back at the tech products that were so overdone by marketing hype, that by the time they were released, most failed to meet expectations.

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.

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

Can you imagine a time when computers didn't have GPUs? Here are graphics technologies that helped take computing out of the lab and into the hands of consumers and professionals

Planning that extended weekend away, or perhaps you have an overseas business trip looming? Then this list is a must-read.

We've all had great ideas in idle moments that are either forgotten or impractical, but these are people who identified technological advances and made them happen..

High-capacity desktop drives have never been so affordable. Darien Graham-Smith puts 23 to the test to find the best

There's a lot of fake news going around about the upcoming GPUish chip called the GT300. Let's clear some air on this Larrabee-lite architecture.