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..

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

Linux enthusiast gets a cheque to cover the costs of not using Windows.

Is Redmond's attack on the virtualisation market a re-run of its browser fight with Netscape 10 years ago?

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.

The summary of Microsoft's plans for Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 and netbooks, as announced at Computex

Microsoft has given its strongest hint yet that Windows 7 will be in the shops by Christmas.

Another operating system bites the dust, leaving the thousands of hours of time you spent playing Minesweeper just a memory.

Should Windows XP PCs with 512MB RAM have been advertised as "Vista Capable"?

Silent update leaves restored users stranded.

As we bring our Information Overload summit to a close, we have decided to name and rank the biggest culprits for the overload, the issues which more than anything else are causing companies to drown in a deluge of data..

Microsoft has changed its stance on the features of Windows 7 Starter..

An employee has accidentally leaked details of Microsoft’s next operating system via his LinkedIn profile..

Microsoft has said that it will offer European Windows users a choice of browser as a way of settling its ongoing legal feud with the EU, confirming earlier hints..

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.

Microsoft and Negroponte getting on.

Windows XP Service Pack 3 has been cropping up on numerous file sharing and developer sites over the weekend.

In a written deposition to court Steve Ballmer has denied all knowledge of the Vista Capable marketing program that resulted in a class action suit against his company.

New code should make life easier for Linux and Solaris users.