I’ve long been a fan of Winternals and Sysinternals. Only time will tell if the loss of the creative minds behind them from the independent sector will be offset by their addition to the Windows team.
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.
“I’ve had my eye on Mark for some time,” Jim Allchin, Microsoft divisional co-president, said in a statement. “The work he and Bryce (Cogswell, Winternal’s other co-founder) have completed in system recovery and data protection illustrates the depth of thinking and skill they will bring to future versions of Windows. The addition of their deep kernel-level expertise to our existing strong talent will help provide us with the edge we need to continue to raise the quality and functionality bar for Windows on both the client and the server.”
In buying Winternals, Microsoft is getting the company’s free tools, its Sysinternals community Web site 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.
“It’s definitely about talent,” Platform and Services division architect Jason Garms said in a telephone interview on Tuesday. “Mark is one of the top five or 10 people in the world when it comes to Windows internals.”
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Source: c|net
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