While this isn’t exactly hot off the press, (the press release came out in July) I thought some of you might find it interesting. Winternals, the company run by Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell was aquired by Microsoft. Mark and Bryce also have a companion site called Sysinternals that contains a wealth of useful freeware utilities. Many of the freeware programs also come with source code allowing interested software programmers to make modifications. The recent aquisition has been a cause for some fearmongoring on sites like Slashdot and others. While I’d like to believe that Microsoft will allow Mark and Bryce to keep the Sysinternals site available, I have to admit I downloaded a copy of every one of the utilities just in case. I honestly think this aquisition is a win for Mark and Bryce as well as for Microsoft. These are 2 of the brightest windows developers around and their combined experience can only serve to improve the quality of Microsoft’s products. (and that’s good for all of us…)