Microsoft scoops up Windows apps maker
Posted by Chris Leckness on 07/19/06 in Software
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ysinternals is a good package of free tools that has now been acquired by Microsoft .. not sure If this is a good thing or a bad thing……
Microsoft on Tuesday said it has bought Winternals Software, a small maker of Windows utility programs, in a deal the software behemoth hopes will add key technical talent to its operating system development team.
As part of the deal, the software maker is naming Winternals co-founder Mark Russinovich as a technical fellow. Among the software Winternals offers is a set of freely downloadable tools known as Sysinternals.
In buying Winternals, Microsoft is getting the company’s free tools, its Sysinternals community website as well as several paid-for software products for businesses. However, it appears Microsoft made the deal, in large part, to hire the company’s two co-founders.
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