Тъжна новина за всички почитатели на Winternals&Sysinternals ...

"Отказалият" се от бизнеса Били нанесе поредният удар върху свободният софтуер:

Microsoft Buys Data Protection, Recovery Tools Developer Winternals

Although Winternals' commercial software and free-of-charge Sysinternals tools are well-known, co-founder Mark Russinovich is most famous as the discoverer of a rootkit tucked inside Sony BMG audio CDs.

By Gregg Keizer
TechWeb

Jul 18, 2006 01:58 PM


Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday announced it was acquiring privately owned Winternals Software, an Austin, Texas developer of recovery and data protection tools, and the host of the well-known Sysinternals free toolset.

Winternals co-founder Mark Russinovich will join Microsoft's Platforms and Services group as a technical fellow, the Redmond, Wash. giant said in a press release. Bryce Cogswell, the company's other co-founder, will head to Microsoft's Core Operating Systems division as a software architect.

"I've had my eye on Mark for some time," said Jim Allchin, co-president of the Windows team, in a statement. "The work he and Bryce have completed in system recovery and data protection illustrates the depth of thinking and skill they will bring to future versions of Windows."

Although the Winternals commercial software -- including Protection Manager and Recovery Manager -- and the free-of-charge Sysinternals tools are well-known, Russinovich is most famous as the discoverer of a rootkit tucked inside Sony BMG audio CDs. His 2005 find raised a firestorm of protest against Sony BMG, led to several court cases, and was pegged as a reason for a slowdown in CD sales.

In a Tuesday blog entry, Russinovich admitted he didn't yet know how the Winternals and Sysinternals software and technologies would be integrated into Windows.

"Microsoft is still evaluating the best way to leverage the many different technologies that have been developed by Winternals," he wrote. "Some will find their ways into existing Microsoft products or Windows itself and others will continue on as Microsoft-branded products."

The Sysinternals Web site will remain as is for the time being, Russinovich said, and when Microsoft eventually decides how to integrate it with existing online content, the tools will continue to be free to download.

Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

... тъй като сайта вече е затворен дайте да съберем пакета и да го качиме някъде из Сетком за сваляне, аз като че ли знаех, та месец преди това свалих повечето от пакета, пишете на лична да го съберем целият...

Ужас! Имах много високо мнение за тази фирма. Ще я разсипят.

Сайтът не е затворен, вероятно вчера го беше ударил shashdot ефекта - сега си работи. Но наистина е добра идея да си свали човек каквото му хареса от там - аз лично отдавна съм фен на Autoruns, Process Explorer, TCPView и Regmon. От MS едва ли ще затрият всичко, но може да се очаква неприятното понякога "Please validate your copy of Windows" :)

Жалко дам... поне може уиндоус да попие опит оттам, да се замени таск манагера с процес експлоръра, вместо мсконфиг - ауторънс..

От М$ се чудят какво да си правят парите и предпочитат да изкупуват качествени фирми с цел да ги обезличат. Така конкуренцията изглежда по-добре. И дълго време ще мародерстват потребителите.