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On My Way to Microsoft!
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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.
That’s what makes being acquired by Microsoft especially exciting and rewarding. I’m joining Microsoft as a technical fellow in the Platform and Services Division, which is the division that includes the Core Operating Systems Division, Windows Client and Windows Live, and Windows Server and Tools. I’ll therefore be working on challenging projects that span the entire Windows product line and directly influence subsequent generations of the most important operating system on the planet. From security to virtualization to performance to a more manageable application model, there’s no end of interesting areas to explore and innovate.
So what’s going to happen to Winternals and Sysinternals? Microsoft is still evaluating the best way to leverage the many different technologies that have been developed by Winternals. Some will find their ways into existing Microsoft products or Windows itself and others will continue on as Microsoft-branded products. As for Sysinternals, the site will remain for the time being while Microsoft determines the best way to integrate it into its own community efforts, and the tools will continue to be free to download.
Personally, I remain committed to the Sysinternals and Windows IT pro communities and so I’ll continue to blog here, to write about Windows technologies, and to speak at conferences. Until I know my Microsoft email address and post it you can continue to contact me at mark@sysinternals.com.
I’m looking forward to making Windows an even better platform for all of us!
Originally by Mark Russinovich on 7/18/2006 10:20:00 AM
Migrated from original Sysinternals.com/Blog
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It wasn't too long ago that Mark Russinovich announced he was becoming a Microsoft employee (new link...
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November 14, 2006
I guess I've been too busy to notice...<br>Congrats fellas!<br>Getting re-directed to the MS website was a bit of a shock, but if y'all are happy, I'm happy for you.<br>Thanks for the years of FANTASTIC tools, and I hope you all can continue extend and integrate your essential tools into next gen Windows (Maybe Vista SP2?)<br>;)<br>Happy Transitioning!
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November 21, 2006
I'd like to fully second the previous comment, by contributing all these wonderful tools, you folks have seriously had a big impact on making the windows experience at least BEARABLE for a die-heart *nix user who every now and then got to work in a win32 environment ;-)<br>Thanks again for everything and all the best to you guys
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February 23, 2007
Sysinternals utilities will certainly cease to exist, no profit to be expected.<br>... I used to enjoy your blog posts when you disassemble microsoft tools and see<br>... Good luck with your futures at Microsoft, I will be looking forward to ...<br>to" data-linktype="external">http://gregorycollins.payitforward4profits.com/>to Pay it forward for profits<br>blogs
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