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In the news this week.
 Most Web Users Unable to Spot Spyware
From Slash Dot
"According to a Spyware Quiz conducted by McAfee SiteAdvisor , a staggering 97% of Internet users are just one click away from infecting their PCs with spyware. One interesting conclusion from this study showed that even users with a high "Spyware IQ" have a nearly 100% chance of visiting a dangerous site during 30 days of typical online searching and browsing activity."

Microsoft fights to keep secrets
Microsoft lawyers have argued that the European Commission is forcing the firm to give up valuable trade secrets, a move that would handicap its future.
The claims were made during the third day of an anti-competition hearing where the software giant is appealing against a landmark ruling from 2004.

Seagate to roll out monster 750-gigabyte hard drives
Seagate is beefing up the capacity of its hard disk drives to a whopping 750 gigabytes, offering consumers of digital media more storage for their computers than ever before.

 The Kiss My Butt award of the week.
This week it goes to the US House Energy & Commerce Committee.

The Committee just rejected the Markey amendment to preserve net neutrality, they voted 34-22 on Wednesday to defeat an amendment that would have prevented AT&T, Verizon and Comcast from charging more for priority access to the high-speed networks of the future.

I would like all of you to check out savetheinternet.com to find out How this affects you

News from Henk Devos of SharewareBlogs.com 
Digital Locker To Be Part Of Windows Vista
What has been expected for some time is now finally going to happen in Windows Vista: Digital Locker, which enables shareware developers selling through Digital River and eSellerate to sell their software through Windows.

New Download Site for Audio and Video Tools
Audio-Video-Tools.com, which is obviously dedicated to what the name suggests. The editor of the site, Chris Hoffman, actually is an authoritty in the area too. I'll bet this site will go a long way!

How Web site Changes Influence Sales
I was just reading a press release about Morpheus Software, where they explained the result of their web site changes. The major change was the inclusion of a CD version in the check out page. The result is that the CD version is now selling much better. Seems like a no-brainer at first, but devlopers often overlook how small changes can make a real difference to the bottom line.

Interesting New Software
Create video blog use Flash Video MX
Flash Video MX is a very easy-to-use yet professional software tool to convert your video to flash (movie to flash, mpeg to flash, avi to flash, wmv to flash) that can be played on Internet Explorer with high quality.

News from Dave Collins of SharewarePromotions
A reminder that Dave is putting out a new monthly newsletter: Competitive Edge Google habits
New digital rights law proposed
Matt says: don't rule anything out
Free version of ClickTracks
Dave also has a really good article on spyware entitled:
Awareness, hype, stats & paranoia -  Dave has many other interesting items on his blog.
 

This weeks Interview
This is a continuation of our interview with Michael Lehman of Microsoft. Michael is Microsoft's representative in the ASP. A man of many talents, he is a musician, programmer and one of the first podcasters.

This interview was held in Brussels at ESWC.