CStechcast.com brings you another information filled podcast for IT pros. This week we interview Ben Day, Microsoft MVP for C#, conference speaker, and leader of the Beantown.NET User Group to get into the benefits and how to avoid the controversy of LINQ. Find him online at Benday.com. In the news we see the nail in Windows XP sales coffin, we explore Windows 7 rumors, you get exposed to a plethora of security patches, go head first into IRS phishing, see the resurgence of backscatter spam, more DDoS traffic, get some much needed help from a honeypot client, look at VMWare's latest release to control VM's, and confirm what we already knew about the direction of IT this year. Creative shuts down helpful user written Vista drivers for "The Worst Tech Move of the Week", we show you why SPNs are important for domain accounts in IIS and SQL in the "Weekly Tech Tip", and we take "A Closer Look" at IT conferences. Quest Software is giving away a copy of Change Director for SQL Server. Enter using the "Contest" link at CStechcast.com.<div class="feedflare"><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/CsTechcast?a=TkTnNaG"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/CsTechcast?i=TkTnNaG" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/CsTechcast?a=DQlOlKg"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/CsTechcast?i=DQlOlKg" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/CsTechcast?a=VliwHRG"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/CsTechcast?i=VliwHRG" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/CsTechcast?a=hKa6j3G"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/CsTechcast?i=hKa6j3G" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/CsTechcast?a=kC1yCzG"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/CsTechcast?i=kC1yCzG" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/CsTechcast?a=klPCTIg"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/CsTechcast?i=klPCTIg" border="0"></img></a></div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CsTechcast/~4/265426110" height="1" width="1"/>