Microsoft Acquires Winternals and Sysinternals

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."

Comments

Mod parent up... not flamebait

[gravyface]

I smell a zealot with a fistful of mod points... why is this flamebait? I think the parent brings up a valid point here.

Re:Microsoft is acknowledging that Windows is shit

[loraksus]

BMW had (has?) a toolkit in the lid of every trunk that contained pretty much everything necessary for general maintenance. Found that was incredibly helpful if you needed to do something instead of hunting down the goddamn tools.

Mark's blog comments

[BoaZaur]

Congratulations, Congratulations, Congratulations. Its not that readers don't know any other compliments, its that "Congratulations" is such an hypocritical praise. It is said with the mouth half closed when the truth is not appropriate and the Future is uncertain.
Well we are all crying out here. And not the kind of cry when we where born, when we took our first breath, and are all anticipating the life we will have. But the kind of weep we have when our father dies, and all thats left behind is his legacy and our, now painful, memory. So you weep and slowly you realize that Life will (have to) go on without the help and guide of the one person in the world that only wants our well been, even over his own. The one that catches us when we fall, the one that saves us when Sony turns Big-Brother. Fer well our fathers, have a good time in moneys heaven. It will happen to us but not yet.

Father, you went to the sky, flying among the clouds, riding on a Dragon, traveling the endless road which is You and me and my child