Goldman trims Microsoft forecast

An influential Wall Street analyst downgraded Microsoft yesterday, citing renewed evidence that consumers were buying fewer personal computers.

Ellison trashes Microsoft

Larry Ellison, the multibillionaire chairman and chief executive of Oracle Corporation, mounted a sustained and sometimes humorous attack on Microsoft during his speech at the Comdex computer trade show in Las Vegas.

Whodunnit? The professional hacker or unwitting employee

Cock-up or conspiracy? Only the hacker and Microsoft know whether the penetration of its computer systems was a skilled break-in using custom code, or whether somebody working for the software giant did something human, and stupid. Microsoft is not saying.

Hackers crack Microsoft software codes

Hackers have broken into Microsoft's computer network and gained access to blueprints of its latest software, the company admitted yesterday. Initial investigations suggest that the hackers could have links with, or be based in, St Petersburg, Russia.