Sysinternals surrenders to Microsoft

Martyr · 19-07-2006 7:20pm #1

not entirely sure if this is good or bad news...

http://www.sysinternals.com/blog/2006/07/on-my-way-to-microsoft.html

M$ does it again.
maybe some of the cool utilities that Mark & Bryce have written over the years will be integrated into M$ windows.

SouperComputer · 20-07-2006 1:19am

maybe some of the cool utilities that Mark & Bryce have written over the years will be integrated into M$ windows.

Or butchered

Lets hope for the best and expect the worst!

Capt'n Midnight · 21-07-2006 5:49pm

Yes, I support the Freedom to Innovate.

gline · 22-07-2006 1:27am

i think this will be bad news tbh, would be good if m$ integrated some of the tools actually into the OS though, be a big improvement

Thomas_S_Hunterson · 24-07-2006 7:27am

Will the software on the site still remain Freeware and available to download?

DonkeyStyle \o/ · 24-07-2006 7:43am

Some funny comments on that page tbh... like the person who said MS will probably turn process explorer into a 35MB app

Oh well, another one bites the dust.

Thomas_S_Hunterson · 24-07-2006 7:49am

DonkeyStyle \o/ wrote:

Some funny comments on that page tbh... like the person who said MS will probably turn process explorer into a 35MB app
Oh well, another one bites the dust.

The sad thing is, it's probably true. Just look at the newer versions of microsoft office. Not a thought is given to the efficiency of the programs because the attitude is that systems have huge resources, and the programmers are just lazy. There has been no significant performance increase between the current edition of office and any of the older versions, just increased functionality, this despite processor power more than doubling every 18 months.

DonkeyStyle \o/ · 24-07-2006 8:09am

sean_keevey wrote:

The sad thing is, it's probably true.

Yup... I'm a big fan of "it's funny caus it's true"... as long as they add clippit to TCPview then I'll be happy.

Actually....

Thomas_S_Hunterson · 24-07-2006 8:41am

DonkeyStyle \o/ wrote:

Yup... I'm a big fan of "it's funny caus it's true"... as long as they add clippit to TCPview then I'll be happy.

Actually....

ROFL

NutJob · 24-07-2006 1:43pm

Guess that means that th ps-exec eula is fooked for good now. Be warned that the EULAS for some of the freeware has changed since the sale:mad:

rogue-entity · 25-07-2006 6:21pm

Ugh, why didnt those two just open-source their programmes under a BSD licence (well, PS-Tools at the very least).

NutJob · 25-07-2006 8:54pm

rogue-entity wrote:

Ugh, why didnt those two just open-source their programmes under a BSD licence (well, PS-Tools at the very least).

Money?

Fr0g · 26-07-2006 3:59pm

sean_keevey wrote:

Will the software on the site still remain Freeware and available to download?

Still available at the moment, but i've download them all before microsoft absorbs them

I suggest everyone does the same.

rogue-entity · 27-07-2006 4:07pm

NutJob wrote:

Money?

Am, the programmes were freeware, just closed source. They were hardly making money off them, I mean, I didnt have to pay to download PS-Tools, but know that MS owns them, its too late, if they had BSD'd them then at the very least I would know how they work, and MS couldnt stop me from getting the source code, now it wont happen. *sighs*

Sysinternals surrenders to Microsoft

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