While there will always be arguments from devotees of both sides as to whether the Windows or Mac platform reigns supreme, one thing that cannot be denied is that in terms of syncing and device harmony, Apple’s product range and ecosystem trumps all competition, and is one of the most appealing aspects of purchasing devices from Tim Cook’s company.

Just days after the final version of Firefox 12 was released to the public, developer Mozilla as already taken the wraps off Firefox 13 Beta, which, as we’ve come to expect from these short interval releases, doesn’t bring much of significance to the table.

Wolfram Alpha, the knowledge and computation service that can be found on the web, or on smartphones – you may know it as the service which feeds Siri with data to return to you – will be coming to the desktop, but in a rather unconventional way. When I read the headline that this was going to happen, I initially thought that they were developing an app for either the Windows 8 or OS X app stores.

It’s certainly been a busy last few days for Microsoft. After showcasing the impressive cloud service SkyDrive, as well as announcing the Release Preview of the Windows 8 OS, Microsoft’s Security Essentials package has been updated to version 4.0, and is now ready for download.

When a game manages to garner a mass amount of attention a full year before release, there’s usually a very good reason, and by releasing a gameplay trailer of Crysis 3, Electronic Arts has pretty much justified all the fuss in two minutes flat.

The wraps have finally been taken off Google’s mythical Google Drive online storage and collaboration service, with the news first being leaked via Google’s own French blog. Now though, the app is available to download for anyone with the right hardware, and if the video Google has put out is anything to go by, it’s going to be pretty awesome.

The Release Preview of Windows 8 will be released in June, it has been confirmed by Microsoft today. Subsequently, the final version will be signed off and released to PC manufacturers at the same time, which suggests the retail date could arrive as early as September.

To the cloud, file storage service! That certainly seems to be the mantra as of late. And the competition amongst companies who provide such services is definitely heating up. Dropbox, a popular choice for quite some time (its name is practically the first thing that comes to mind when thinking about cloud storage) is being threatened by SkyDrive, which really stepped up its game today. iCloud also provides an unbeatable seamless backup/syncing experience for users of iOS and Mac. On top of this, Google wants to get their foot in the door of this market with Google Drive.

All of the big guns are looking to get in on the cloud computing act, and Microsoft is no exception with its SkyDrive service. As per the MSDN blog, much work has gone into improving SkyDrive over the course of the last couple of months, and now, a preview of the SkyDrive desktop client has been released, along with a plethora of improvements to existing services.

In news that will certainly appease tens of millions of FPS fans worldwide, the next installment to the popular Call of Duty series is set to be announced on the first day of May, and is likely to be the sequel to Black Ops, released in late 2010.

Crysis 3 is set to become one of next year’s most hotly anticipated games, and with releases set to come on the Xbox 360, PS3 and PC, there will be plenty of gamers out there sat waiting for any nugget of information that leaks out about the game itself.

Earlier this week, Microsoft officially unveiled the official SKUs of Windows 8, and, much to the surprise of many Microsoft enthusiasts, they actually simplified things. However, while the simplification is definitely a great step as far as branding is concerned, they did do one peculiar thing: The SKU for Windows on ARM was named Windows RT.

Much like the first release of Halo, Combat Evolved for the first Xbox, the original Crysis was a landmark title, and to many of those who played it, felt about as futuristic as they come.

Following much rumor and speculation, Microsoft has just announced the final Windows 8 SKUs, as well as reaffirm that Windows 8 is the official, final name of the upcoming OS. Prior to clicking on the link to the announcement post on the Windows Team Blog, I was slightly nervous; Microsoft is notorious among the tech community for their unnecessarily complicated product branding. Expecting the worst, I was actually quite delighted to see that Microsoft… actually simplified the number of editions in Windows 8!

As of late, cloud storage services have been gaining significantly in popularity. Both Microsoft and Apple are involved in the space in some form, on top of highly successful startups entirely dedicated to providing such services (i.e. Dropbox). Thus, it only makes sense that Google would want a piece of the action as well. Since 2010, there have been murmurs that Google was planning to launch a cloud storage service, and, more recently, it was revealed on good authority that such a service was certainly in the pipeline, and that it is going to be called Google Drive.

With Rockstar Games still in the process of releasing Max Payne to mobile devices, the godfather of controversial games has just leaked a trailer of its upcoming PC and console title Max Payne 3, entitled Bullet Time.

Facebook is in the news a lot recently, with the social network splashing the cash to acquire photo sharing platform, Instagram. One of the reasons the company was in the news last year, the new Timeline feature, is now the subject of a Microsoft-made website, too.

Windows 8′s lock screen is easy on the eye, but – as with many of the features within the Consumer Preview – just doesn’t really work on a desktop or notebook.

As you may have gathered, Instagram finally made its way to the many millions of Android users on Tuesday, and although it’s certainly a step in the right direction for the most popular image networking app on the planet right now, it’s definitely crying out for some sort of web interface.

If you’re a big fan of Dropbox – and let’s be honest, if you’re reading this then you probably are – then you are just going to love this news. Not just like, not just really like. Love!