Winternals Software announced today that they have been bought by Microsoft. They were bought so that Microsoft could hire the two founders of the company, Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell. These two guys are talented Windows programmers who should add a lot to the Windows development team. They are well known for Sysinternals, the system tools that are extremely helpful in troubleshooting windows. Microsoft is also aquiring all these tools in the deal. I think that this is an excellent move by Microsoft. They get two excellent developers, and all the great support tools. I know Microsoft likes to use the Sysinternals tools, because every time I am on a support call with them they have me download and use one of the tools. It would be great if Microsoft could bundle these tools into Windows, or the windows support tools pack. This would make it much easier to use these tools.
However part of the reason that the Sysinternals tools were so great were because they were third party tools. Now that they are owned by Microsoft, more people will be more distrustful of the tools. But I think that it is a good move overall. Perhaps some other developers in Microsoft will be able to add helpful features to the tools. I definitly do not think that Microsoft will charge for these tools, since there support department uses them so much.
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