Comments for Winternals is Assimilated

Comment from Francis J. Golden on 2006-07-22

2006-07-22T10:37:26Z

Bad day for open source. You know one of the
great things about sysinternals proggies is no
install process. Just unzip to folder of your
choice and run exe. Noticed on recent download
from sysinternals that the zip contains a MS
eula.txt file.

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Comment from Mary on 2006-07-22

2006-07-22T09:46:56Z

I first learned of SysInternals when I bought a book recommended by Leo - "Cleaning Windows XP by Allen Wyatt". I still consider myself a novice computer user but several of the free utilities helped me out. Of the 5 possibilities offered by Leo, the last one (the utilities might no longer be free) seems the most likely. Here's why.

Microsoft doesn't care about "PR nightmares" as evidenced by all the people who suddenly found out that their computers would not pass a validation scan. Microsoft's "PR nightmare" response: "Tough sh*t. We don't care what your sob story is. Buy a new OS at retail price or buy a new electronic Product Key from us to become legal. Repeat: we don't care."

I don't believe that Microsoft will suddenly become magnanimous and allow free utilities to remain free. Microsoft is in the business to make money. Does anyone honestly believe their purchase of SysInternals was to lose money? Whatever the purchase price, MS saw this as an investment and a way to MAKE money. I hope I'm wrong.

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Comment from Ken on 2006-07-21

2006-07-21T15:16:42Z

I saw this several days ago when I went to SysInternals to get something. My first reaction was "bye bye SysInternals". On second thought, I hope that Microsoft sees the PR nightmare that would ensue if these utilities were no longer freely available, without any "Windows Genuine Advantage" or Passport-like requirements.

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Comment from Jon on 2006-07-20

2006-07-21T02:47:53Z

Damn!... These free utilities fill a great big hole in MS's own "diagnostic" utilities, and have proved invaluable on several occasions to sort out issues.

Now going to be part of MS's income stream? Perhaps we'll be moving to Linux/OpenOffice at home sooner than I thought.

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