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

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..

Keen to forget the PR nightmare that was Vista, Microsoft may have committed yet another blunder: Windows XP users will not be able to upgrade to Windows 7 without a totally clean install.

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

Every industry has its share of villains, and the computing world is no different.

A change to Facebook's terms of service, which extends control over user content to profiles that have been shut down, has prompted nearly 20,000 users to join protest groups..

If MySpace has its own credit card, maybe other Web sites will follow. We gaze into a warped crystal ball to imagine how the Digg card and others might work.

Windows Live Calendar bears an uncanny resemblance to a certain rival's.

From Betamax to Amiga, here's a list of those IT innovations that fell under the bulldozer. Some were cruelly robbed of their advantage, others threw it away with bad management

Parallels is targeting PC users switching to the Mac platform with a special edition of its Desktop for Mac that adds migration tools and tutorials to help Windows users get up to speed with the Mac OS X user interface.

Windows 7 users will have option to move to Premium and Ultimate editions after purchase.

Update adds new-look user interface alongside application store and online backup service.

The vast majority of surfers fail to spot the tell-tale signs.

Facebook rolled out a beta for Facebook Lite at the beginning of the week – a simpler, faster version of the website aimed at mobile users and those on dial-up connections

Research In Motion has released a new version of its BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) for business customers, adding a web-based administration console and enhancements such as the ability for users to access Windows fileshares from their BlackBerry handset.

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