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Pre-ordered a Microsoft Surface? So SORRY it's late, have a voucher

Still waiting for that Windows-RT Surface you pre-ordered? So are lots of other people, and confusing emails from Microsoft haven't helped

Forgetting Microsoft: How Steve Ballmer's Surface could win

Open ... and Shut Ignore Apple, it's Google he must take on

Operating Systems 30 Oct 13:26

Pre-ordered a Microsoft Surface? So SORRY it's late, have a voucher

Redmond positively désolé at your frustration

Windows 8 29 Oct 14:28

Microsoft aims to herd 70% of enterprise onto Windows 7 by mid-2013

Exclusive 'Um, yeah, good luck with that' – partners

Windows 8 29 Oct 11:50

Granny upstages Microsoft, storms stage at Surface launch

Vid Fondletop shindig chaos in Beijing

Windows 8 29 Oct 09:57

British IT consultant talks of his three years as an Iraqi hostage

Days of PlayStation, systems design and mock executions

Developer 28 Oct 01:28

Chrome extension blocks political speech on Facebook

Never mind that rant, u can haz cats!

Applications 27 Oct 00:52

Yahoo! will! ignore! 'Do! Not! Track!' from! IE10!

Default setting 'degrades the experience'

Applications 26 Oct 23:59

Headaches, delays plague Windows Store, dev claims

'Windows 8 doesn't want your app'

Developer 26 Oct 22:38

Surface RT: Freedom luvin' app-huggers beware

Review A hybrid with potential for productivity types

Windows 8 26 Oct 10:29

N00bs vs Windows 8: We lock six people in a room with new OS

'It's like they tried to make my computer a mobile phone'

Windows 8 26 Oct 08:02

Australian Win 8 launch fails to mention business

Connected to everything, except the desktop and sysadmins

Software 26 Oct 01:42

Surface tablet's touch cover is ZX81 REBORN

FIRST FONDLE Hands on with Redmond's Typoslab

Windows 8 26 Oct 00:00

Sinofsky: Surface 'best tablet, best laptop' he's ever used

So solid Redmond built a Surface skateboard

Windows 8 25 Oct 21:07

Oracle rolls up and rolls out Solaris 11.1 update

Tweaked Solaris Cluster 4.1 system lasher tags along

Operating Systems 25 Oct 20:43

Windows 8 unleashed! Midnight launch for world+dog

Will it be remembered as an XP or a Vista?

Windows 8 25 Oct 17:58

Microsoft's 'official' Windows 8 Survival Guide leaks

What you really, really need to know

Windows 8 25 Oct 11:40

Vaunted Windows 8 RTM updates 'actually featured from Win2000'

Ex-Microsofties dispute Sinofsky's blogpost claim

Windows 8 25 Oct 08:30

Fujitsu assigns team of women to design PC for women

'All-out-pursuit of elegance' produces jewelled power supplies and mice

Windows 8 25 Oct 00:30

MYOB users didn't want no steenking cloud

Let them eat hybrids, says Australian accounting software vendor

Applications 24 Oct 21:15

Microsoft mixes Hortonworks Hadoop with Windows and Azure

Hadoop World Redmond's Big Data play makes Yahoo money

Software 24 Oct 20:56

Surface tablets snapped up on pre-order, but no camping in the street

Brits loving it, Americans and Frenchies holding back

Windows 8 24 Oct 17:04

SAP happy enough, despite lack of massive lawsuit win this year

McDermott boasts of huge bulge into the cloud

The Channel 24 Oct 13:58

Live Chat: Windows 8 and Surface unboxed at last!

Live Chat Readers speak their brains on remote desktop, Metro apps, boot times, durability and more

Windows 8 24 Oct 13:30

EC: Microsoft didn't honour browser-choice commitment

Millions weren't offered chance to bin IE in Windows 7, says commission

Operating Systems 24 Oct 13:11

Cloudera's Project Impala rides herd with Hadoop elephant in real-time

Hadoop World Life's no longer a batch

Software 24 Oct 13:03

Windows 8: Is Microsoft's new OS too odd to handle?

Not ready installing on drive C: abort, retry or fail?

Windows 8 24 Oct 09:30

Microsoft has no plans for a second Windows 7 Service Pack

Exclusive You don't like it? Hey - had you thought of Windows 8?

Windows 8 24 Oct 08:04

Windows 8: An awful lot of change for a single release

Windows 1.0, Windows 95, Windows NT - the road to Windows 8

Windows 8 23 Oct 11:00

Five go wild with the Administration Tools Pack

Stob Nobody owns the Linuxes, Julian

Verity Stob 23 Oct 10:00

Microsoft: Welcome back to PCs, ARM. Sorry about the 1990s

Analysis Come in from the cold, we've got Windows RT tabs to flog

Windows 8 23 Oct 09:00

Telerik uncloaks Icenium cloudy mobile app dev suite

Build iOS apps with no SDKs and no Mac

Developer 23 Oct 01:26

Gates: Microsoft will merge Phone and Windows platforms

One OS to rule them all

Windows 8 22 Oct 18:32

Skype for Windows 8 is coming: Always on, always in your contacts

And TWO SCREENS OF SMILEYS - that's worth $8bn, right?

Windows 8 22 Oct 15:47

SAP vows to unravel user snarl-up over software licensing

Survey shows misery and despair among customers

Developer 22 Oct 10:52

I just LOVE Server 2012, but count me out on Windows 8 for now

Sysadmin blog Some of us consumers don't like consumer stuff

Windows 8 22 Oct 10:18

Android apps get SSL wrong, expose personal data

Researchers find 1,000 insecure apps, pinch credit card and other data

Operating Systems 21 Oct 22:05

Mozilla debuts Firefox Marketplace for Android apps

Bleeding-edge bazaar offers apps based on HTML5

Applications 20 Oct 00:27

Salesforce CEO Benioff: Win 8 is 'the end of Windows'

Shocks world with cloudy future prediction

Windows 8 19 Oct 23:17

Apache promotes OpenOffice to top-level project

Fiddling as LibreOffice speeds past

Applications 19 Oct 22:38

Nokia puts Symbian out to pasture ... why not release it into the wild?

Old girl needn't be finished yet

Developer 19 Oct 10:45

Windows 8 'bad' analyst says Store is a weakness

On the upside the Windows Store has more apps than Firefox's new Marketplace

Software 19 Oct 06:05

Apple banishes Java from Mac browsers

Fanbois told to install Oracle's plugin

Software 19 Oct 01:32

Earlier stories

Spotlight

Open ... and Shut Ignore Apple, it's Google he must take on
Review A hybrid with potential for productivity types
Windows 3.0 Color Control Panel
What you really, really need to know
Ex-Microsofties dispute Sinofsky's blogpost claim
Windows 8
Not ready installing on drive C: abort, retry or fail?
Bill Gates' 1970s' mug shot
Windows 1.0, Windows 95, Windows NT - the road to Windows 8
Stob Nobody owns the Linuxes, Julian
Acorn Risc PC
Analysis Come in from the cold, we've got Windows RT tabs to flog
Sysadmin blog Some of us consumers don't like consumer stuff
Ubuntu RHS teaser
Review NSFW, laughable results - what were they thinking?