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..

Check whether your PC can host Windows 7

Parallels is making Windows applications on the Mac an even more seamless experience with the release of Desktop 5 for Mac, which adds support for Windows 7 and a new Crystal view mode that gives Windows applications a more Mac-like appearance.

Microsoft has taken the unprecedented step of allowing marketers to re-brand its new Windows 7 operating system..

Microsoft is offering substantial discount deals on Windows 7 Home Premium packs for families (up to 3 licences) for under $250.

Windows 7 gives users the ability to stream your favourite albums from your home PC to your laptop in the office. Here's how it works

Windows 7 may be fresh on the shelves, but new job vacancies on the Microsoft website show that work on Windows 8 is already underway

Run Windows apps on a Unix system

Windows 7 can't stop Mac OS X The latest figures from Net Applications suggest that Windows 7 has failed to attract any interest and the Mac is set to become the dominant operating system in the world

Linux is turning up in everything from netbooks to Dell PCs, but is it actually fit to replace Windows? Stuart Turton spends a week with Linux to find out.

Minor update for the Apple web browser

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..

Customise your Windows desktop

Host a virtual operating system

Microsoft has moved quickly to dismiss comments made by one of its managers earlier this week that the Windows 7 user interface was based on that of the Mac operating system..

MSI’s Wind Top AE1900 takes on the touchscreen nettop competition, but singularly fails to excite.

More digital Swiss Army knife software, including Linux utilities and tools that are so useful you won't know how you ever did without them

Disable spyware functionality within Windows

Microsoft has never been known to make mistakes in the past, but never was it more apparent than with Vista - and no matter the promises and the hype, Vista never truly delivered.

Google is bringing out an operating system - Chrome OS. But how will it fare against the likes of Windows?