If this is part of Redmond’s alleged scheme to steal the Mac’s look, it’s got the wrong idea. Ad-themed desktops are new for Microsoft, which has long allowed PC manufacturers to customize the desktop ...

Microsoft today announced that it would sell Windows 7 desktop real estate to advertisers and launched a pilot program that includes Coke, Infiniti and Porsche. Using Windows 7 themes — collections of ...

"We expect to see a significant amount of deployment [of virtual desktops] on Windows 7 from CIOs looking for reduced costs in deploying applications on Windows 7," says Scott Woodgate, the director ...