Winternals bought out by MS

FYI…

- http://news.com.com/2102-1016_3-6095376.ht…g=st.util.print
July 18, 2006
"Microsoft on Tuesday said it has bought Winternals Software, a small maker of Windows utility programs, in a deal that the software maker hopes will add key technical talent to its operating system development team. Terms of the deal to acquire the Austin, Texas-based company were not announced. Among the software that Winternals offers is a set of freely downloadable tools known as Sysinternals. As part of the deal, the software maker is naming Winternals co-founder Mark Russinovich as a technical fellow… Garms said that Russinovich will be focused on helping Microsoft further develop the Windows kernel in his role as technical fellow–the top technical position at Microsoft with less than two dozen people holding such title. Co-founder Cogswell will become a software architect in the Windows Component Platform Team…"
- http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2…nternalsPR.mspx

FYI…

"On My Way to Microsoft!"
- http://www.sysinternals.com/blog/2006/07/o…-microsoft.html
July 18, 2006
"I’m very pleased to announce that Microsoft has acquired Winternals Software and Sysinternals. Bryce Cogswell and I founded both Winternals and Sysinternals (originally NTInternals) back in 1996 with the goal of developing advanced technologies for Windows. We’ve had an incredible amount of fun over the last ten years working on a wide range of diverse products such as Winternals Administrator’s Pak, Protection Manager, Defrag Manager, and Recovery Manager, and the dozens of Sysinternals tools, including Filemon, Regmon and Process Explorer, that millions of people use every day for systems troubleshooting and management. There’s nothing more satisfying for me than to see our ideas and their implementation have a positive impact…"

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