Microsoft Acquires Winternals and Sysinternals

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday July 18, 2006 @04:19AM from the internals-are-eternal dept.

SJasperson writes "In a move that will be good for Redmond but may have consequences for the rest of us, Microsoft has acquired Winternals and Sysinternals. This gives them well-known developers Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell as well as dozens of well-loved and much-praised utilities, both commercial and freeware. Though Mark says on his blog that the Sysinternals site will remain 'for the time being,' this would be a good time to download the latest version of essential Windows tools like Process Explorer before they can go mysteriously missing or be locked up behind the wall of Windows Genuine Advantage."

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Re:Seriously? by ConceptJunkie · 2006-07-18 06:50 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Has that happened to anyone yet?

Can you be assured that none of the near daily new exploits of the Windows operating system are _not_ attributable to WGA?

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Re:May I be the first to say....... by x2A · 2006-07-18 10:10 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Stop saying "Stop saying boxen"!
Stop saying "Stop saying boxen"!
STOP SAYING "STOP SAYING BOXEN"!!! It's "You idiot, *slap*" :-p

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