Microsoft buys Winternals!

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I dunno why people are getting bent out of shape and assume MS will kill all the tools. Let's take, for example, few last acquisitions that MS did like this:

- Virtual Server / Virtual PC - now both free... Virtual Server was improved quite bit in the process...

- Lookout - merged with MSN/Windows Desktop Search, which beat the pants of Lookout in functionality and flexibility. Oh yeah, it's free

- Giant Anti Spyware - Windows Defender brought Giant into 21st century as far as code base (it was a VB6 app I think!), it is much more robust... (albeit there are a few features missing from it compared to Gian times); Giant also had more bugs than swiss cheese holes and it was a retail released product too; ah yes, it's now again - free!!

So what is the whining all about again? :shiftyninja:

Because it is cool to hate M$. They're the biggest and easiest to target by all the anti-Microsoft sheep.

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Hopefully there'll be no change to the free tools Sysinternals are offering now... Don't think I'd really like it if WGA validation was sudddenly tacked on to the download process.

If your windows is valid then it shouldnt matter what they put wga into.

I dont think this is going to go over good. The free tools might go to shareware knowing M$.

its MS. look down, theres a key between a and d its an S. remove the ignorance and learn to spell.

congrats MS <--- (see that S) on the buy, I as well hope they integrate into vista

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I dunno why people are getting bent out of shape and assume MS will kill all the tools. Let's take, for example, few last acquisitions that MS did like this:

- Virtual Server / Virtual PC - now both free... Virtual Server was improved quite bit in the process...

- Lookout - merged with MSN/Windows Desktop Search, which beat the pants of Lookout in functionality and flexibility. Oh yeah, it's free

- Giant Anti Spyware - Windows Defender brought Giant into 21st century as far as code base (it was a VB6 app I think!), it is much more robust... (albeit there are a few features missing from it compared to Gian times); Giant also had more bugs than swiss cheese holes and it was a retail released product too; ah yes, it's now again - free!!

So what is the whining all about again? :shiftyninja:

Very well said, BigBoy.

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- Virtual Server / Virtual PC - now both free... Virtual Server was improved quite bit in the process...

They only did it because VMWare released a free Server/Client product - note that VMWares product is vastly superior in every possible way.

- Lookout - merged with MSN/Windows Desktop Search, which beat the pants of Lookout in functionality and flexibility. Oh yeah, it's free

And it's also crap - there are competing (and free) products that offer better, faster and leaner functionality.

Giant Anti Spyware - ah yes, it's now again - free!!

Will be commercial down the line, be prepared to put down the all mighty dollar.

So what is the whining all about again? :shiftyninja:

Come back when you have a clue, Firefox troll boy.

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Always reminds me of the 'Compuglobalhypermeganet' Simpson's episode whenever Microsoft buys a small company.

What the future holds for the original course of the site and developers remains to be seen.

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Always reminds me of the 'Compuglobalhypermeganet' Simpson's episode whenever Microsoft buys a small company.

Exception being Bill Gates made a personal trip to Homer's house and after refusing a buyout of a few million, Bill's body guards destroyed Homer's "office" :laugh:

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They only did it because VMWare released a free Server/Client product - note that VMWares product is vastly superior in every possible way.

And it's also crap - there are competing (and free) products that offer better, faster and leaner functionality.

Will be commercial down the line, be prepared to put down the all mighty dollar.

Come back when you have a clue, Firefox troll boy.

I am sorry, but I guess you took what I said and/or the graphics in my signature personally. :blink: That is a bad thing to do... I recommend - decaf! :rofl:

I do want to say though that you are wrong on two accounts:

- MSN Desktop/Windows desktop search is definitely not crap; not sure if you tried it or not but I am guessing no. That is not to say that there is nothing out there better than it or something that you would rather use. Also - did you miss the fact that it is free? I guess so as otherwise you would not say that competition is free?

- Windows Defender is NOT going to be retail; if someone is telling you that - they have no clue; or they are confused by the Corporate anty spyware product that MS is working on that will NOT be free. But then again - rarely any are; corporate ones that is. Or you are mixing that up with Windows OneCare which is a different thing alltogether again? Either way...

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