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..

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.

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..

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.

Hacker shows how to bypass AT&T sign-up.

Exchange Online and SharePoint Online betas launch.

Latin America design contest zooms in on local demands.

Computers can be seized and held indefinitely by DHS.

Clothing boutique loses nearly 100,000 credit card details.

Company to offer more details on ordering.

Major sites hit with search ranking demotion.

Windows Genuine Advantage no longer required for browser.

Search giant accused of 'airbrushing history'.

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..

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

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

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.

Dancing baby sets legal landmark.