Mark Russinovich writes "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.

There’s nothing more satisfying for me than to see our ideas and their implementation have a positive impact."

I'll bet the cheque from MS was pretty satisfying too. It'll be interesting to see what happens with SysInternal's great freeware tools. Will they just be another company that MS buys and then stops all innovation ?