I’m a PC I always have been. I have owned Macs but always came running back to familiarity and flexibility. The last five years have been a bit of a disaster for Microsoft with Windows Vista, weak efforts in the mobile sector and poor implementation of Microsoft’s Zune music platform. However, in the past seven months Microsoft have been fighting back.

Google seem to be in the middle of a release spree, this week we saw the opening of their ‘Buzz‘ service. As all of you Gmail users will know that Buzz is a service similar to Twitter and Facebook’s feed system in which you can share your life stories/photos/videos. The mobile app also has live geo-tagging backpacking on Google’s Latitude system, which since its launch has not seen much exposure or use.

Whether Buzz will work as a social tool is still yet to be seen, the technology literate people on the internet seem to be equally split in their views, one half claiming it to be a useless product whereas the other half embracing the new tool.

For the last year or so we have seen Google taking on a much more offensive role on their sales front, with the introduction of the Android operating system and their new Nexus One phone. However the magic of Google has always been in their free software products.

First introduced in 2007, Google Street View was an amazing new technology that allowed you to travel through a virtual world courtesy of Google who had taken the time to map out every street of select countries.

Rumors suggest that Google Store View will be coming soon This technology would allow you to go inside certain buildings, such as high street stores to explore the store. The potential for this new system is staggering.

Online television is a fast growing entertainment medium  where we can watch any show or film whenever we want. With the advent of Youtube the mainstream world took notice of streaming and downloadable content, since then we have seen our favourite programming become available through services such as Hulu and BBC iPlayer, however a few new networks have recently entered the fray and are about to change the game.