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Microsoft Acquires Winternals and Sysinternals

Posted by ryuzaki0 on 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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  1. Avoiding WGA with Auto-Updates on? by Kadin2048 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Just out of curiosity (and since I'm not a Windows user, except for a copy I have installed on a virtual machine to play with), is there any way to avoid getting WGA-ed if you turn on Automatic Updates?

    I just turned Auto-Updates off completely, figuring I can just roll the VM back if it gets infected with something, but I'm curious as to whether the user has any control over WGA's installation, or if it just gets slipped in by MS the second you allow automatic installation of updates.

    Can you get just the security patches, but refuse to install everything else? Or is WGA considered a "security" patch? (Which would be suitably ironic -- it's 'security' all right, just not for the user.)

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  2. May I be the first to announce by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    That I, for one, welcome our new monopolistic overlords...

  3. The Best Buy for them by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    So what happens to the Best Buy lawsuit?

  4. Re:The Real Answers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    iDIOT.

  5. Mod parent up... not flamebait by gravyface · · Score: 0, Offtopic

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

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  6. Re:From the article by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Before it gets slashdotted:


    Karma Whore. Next time, post AC.

  7. Re:Microsoft is acknowledging that Windows is shit by loraksus · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    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.

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  8. Mark's blog comments by BoaZaur · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    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