Microsoft rolled out there browser ballot screen only a couple of weeks ago. For those of you who are not aware, the browser ballot screen is a new update to you Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows XP which will present you with a list of browsers to install if you already have Internet Explorer set as the default browser. This change was brought about thanks to an EU Antitrust investigation and it was not helped at all by Opera

FTP Sync is a free command line application to synchronize files between two ftp sites or local directories. Its main purpose is to automate the synchronization of files between two ftp servers or between a ftp server and a local directory. This can be helpful for instance for webmasters or coders who design their websites and projects offline and want to automatically synchronize the updated files to a web server.

The Microsoft browser ballot released this month to Windows users in the EU is already doing Microsoft’s rivals a favor. Two of the major competitors to Internet Explorer have seen an increase in downloads, while the other two are not willing to share data. We contacted the makers of Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and Opera; here’s what they had to say.