By Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell

Published: November 3, 2009

Disk2vhd is a utility that creates VHD (Virtual Hard Disk – Microsoft’s Virtual Machine disk format) versions of physical disks for use in Microsoft Virtual PC or Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines (VMs). The difference between Disk2vhd and other physical-to-virtual tools is that you can run Disk2vhd on a system that’s online. Disk2vhd uses Windows’ Volume Snapshot capability, introduced in Windows XP, to create consistent point-in-time snapshots of the volumes you want to include in a conversion. You can even have Disk2vhd create the VHDs on local volumes, even ones being converted (though performance is better when the VHD is on a disk different than ones being converted).

The Disk2vhd user interface lists the volumes present on the system:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/ee656415.aspx

At the Microsoft’s Professional Developer Conference in LA this week, technical fellow Mark Russinovich shed light on some confusing issues – like the Windows version number, which he said "means nothing at all". Windows 7 is version 6.1. 

Why? 

Not because it is a minor release, but for compatibility with applications that check the major number and would not run if it said 7.

Russinovich was full of other surprises. Positively, his talk showed that Microsoft is putting effort and energy into rescuing Windows from its muddled legacy and buggy applications; negatively, he reveals just how many odd workarounds exist under the surface such as the version number!

Read more here

Je n’avais pas remarqué que Mark Russinovich avait ajouté un texte sur son blog, en date du 22 octobre dernier, Channel 9: Inside Windows 7 Redux. Excellente entrevue sur certaines nouveautés qu’il explique. À la fin de l’entrevue, il parle d’où vient son intérêt et ses débuts dans les systèmes d’exploitation.

Pour ceux qui ne connaissent pas Mark Russinovich, c’est un vrai génie. C’est le créateur des outils Sysinternals, rachetés par Microsoft il y a quelques années. Il travaille maintenant pour Microsoft à titre de Technical Fellow dans le groupe Platform and Services. Il est spécialisé dans les systèmes d’exploitation (Windows évidemment). En plus, l’homme est extrêmement intéressant à écouter, un excellent présentateur.

Son blog peut être lu à cet endroit http://blogs.technet.com/markrussinovich.

Finally decided to unbox the HTC Touch Diamond that a friend loaned to me to test. The packaging is catchy although I, personally, don’t like the design on the back – whoever designed this must have thought he or she was being imaginative. The HTC Diamond design is unique but not innovative (in my humble opinion).

Again I am not doing a comprehensive review of the Diamond. You’d be better of going to one of the sites below. I’m here to tell you what a non-geek would like and dislike about the new product from HTC.

What I like about the HTC Touch Diamond

• Small form factor, fits my hand and my pants pocket (also shirt pocket) very nicely
• ActiveSync software ran very smoothly and syncs my Outlook data to the Diamond (no worries)
• Bright screen
• Windows platform means, in theory, I can open standard office apps when I have to (and for once Windows Mobile 6.1 worked better than its predecessor the Windows Mobile 6 on the HTC device).

I have a HTC Touch (gen 1) and when you load even a small excel spreadsheet, the phone runs like a snail pulling a dead weight. With the Diamond, I ran the picture slideshow, open a spreadsheet, called another phone number, and ran Bubble Breaker and the phone still worked “almost” flawlessly.

What I don’t like about the HTC Touch Diamond

• It is designed to power-off (you can program it for up to 5 minutes). I think this is to save battery but the during first day I used the phone, I tell you it freaked me out that the phone kept switching off. I had to run through the innards of the operating system to come to the conclusion that there is the built-in power off mode. Just to be safe I asked a friend to call my number to see if the phone rang when it was “powered off”. The Diamond wakes up when a call comes in.
• The Diamond touts the new TouchFlo 3D but I tell you the version I got, (ROM 1.93.707.1 WWE), is quirky to say the least. There are times when I had to keep repeating movements to get the darn thing to do what I want it to (doesn’t always though so I had to keep pressing the HOME key every now and then).
• I can’t use my standard headset with mini-jack to listen to the music although bluetooth was ok.
• Fingerprint magnet
• The processor can, at times, be slow (like trying to watch some photos, scrolling through the favorite phonelist).

Other HTC Touch reviews
Geek.com – Review: HTC Diamond
CNET Australia – HTC Touch Diamond
MobileTech Review – HTC Diamond

My first product review was the Samsung Omnia – another Windows Mobile 6.1 device. After holding this HTC Touch for a couple of days I have to admit that the Touch wins hands-down versus the Omnia. GSM Arena has done a great comparative review of the Omnia versus the HTC Touch Diamond. Read it if you are trying to decide between these two devices.

Personally which one would I consider buying? If I really have no choice I would pick the HTC Touch Diamond. But if I have to choose a new phone to replace my BlackBerry Pearl, I’d probably try the new BlackBerry Bold first before I make any commitments. In case you are thinking I’m overly biased towards the BlackBerry, I was once an avid Sony Ericsson customer with the P900 being my last SE smartphone. I am curious to try the SE Experia but that would be for another day. I’ve also used the Nokia E70 – that was also a painful experience.

One last point to ponder. The true test of a consumer product is the ability to use it out of the box without reading the manual. To be fair I was able to switch the Diamond on and make a call. But to do other stuff like look for a phone number, send SMS, or get connected to the web, those took time to figure out and get used to the way the Diamond wants to be handled. Beautiful it may be but the HTC Touch Diamond is not as intuitive as the vendor makes it out to be.

Oh well, back to my BlackBerry Pearl – the no fuss, no hassle, smartphone.

PS: I recently met up with Mark Russinovich. He asked if I switched off TouchFlo to see what my experience would be like. At the time of review, I wasn’t aware this was possible. Oh well, my lost.

A note to Microsoft:

Please Microsoft, if you could find it in your heart somewhere in there….please don’t built anything! Just save us the horror, the trouble, the anguish, the sorrow, the agony, pain, misery, despair, desperation, hopelessness, distress, aggravation, annoyance, exasperation, irritation, vexation; animosity, antagonism, antipathy, bile, bitterness, contempt, enmity, grudge, hostility, rancor; save us the, resentment; malevolence, malice, spite, venom, virulence, vitriol; belligerence, contentiousness, contrariness, disputatiousness, outburst; dander, and most importantly save us our time and money. Just don’t….okay, just don’t.

Thank You

Sincerely,
Sabers210

I really enjoyed watching this recent interview with Microsoft Technical Fellow Mark Russinovich on Microsoft’s TechNet Edge. He covers a wide range of topics, but the one that got my attention is a two-minute snippet near the end, when the interviewer asks whether Mark feels that Microsoft needs to make its own desktop hardware. (If you want to see and hear this discussion for yourself, skip ahead to the 34:03 mark in the video.)

Do you think Microsoft needs to make desktop hardware or certain desktop/server PC hardware?

There’s a lot of discussion about that – not just in the industry but also within Microsoft. Should we be developing the Windows notebook or the Windows desktop? My opinion is that what’s made Windows so successful is the fact that it’s got an ecosystem with partners that are developing software and doing different things with hardware and software. And for us to kind of block all that [pause] innovation – hate to use that word because it’s so overloaded by marketing these days – to block out that playground that people have to do cool things for customers that we can’t think of or don’t have the agility to do, I think, is not the way Windows has gotten successful. I don’t think it’s even the right thing to do now, even in response to what people see as market pressures coming from other people that are doing that. …

[O]ne of the things that you have seen Windows doing over the last couple years is reaching out and working more closely with the hardware partners, with the OEMs, to make sure that the systems they deliver to users provide a good Windows experience, and not one where it’s Windows loaded up with a bunch of junk. And also that the hardware is designed and capable of running Windows the way it should be run and not “Hey, let’s save a few dollars and put in 512 meg of RAM” instead of the couple gig that really make Windows [perform well] … because when you talk about the amount of cost for that these days it’s marginal but the difference in user experience when you look at that is pretty drastic. So, I think that’s the way that we should continue to operate is to have these deeper partnerships with companies to make sure customers do get a great experience.

The fact that these discussions are happening within Microsoft doesn’t surprise me. It’s one of the most obvious responses to Apple’s success, and it’s also in keeping with what Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer wrote in his all-hands memo that was leaked to the press back in July:

In the competition between PCs and Macs, we outsell Apple 30-to-1. But there is no doubt that Apple is thriving. Why? Because they are good at providing an experience that is narrow but complete, while our commitment to choice often comes with some compromises to the end-to-end experience. Today, we’re changing the way we work with hardware vendors to ensure that we can provide complete experiences with absolutely no compromises.

Apple makes a handful of systems using basically the same parts, and they sell the hardware, software, and support as a package. That makes it easy for them to deliver systems that work reliably and can be supported at their stores by technicians with a minimum of training. But it also means that I have limited choices if I want to buy a system running the Mac OS. I can’t buy an Apple-powered tablet, or a small and light notebook (the MacBook Air is thin and light, but it’s not small), or a powerful and expandable small-form-factor desktop. All of those choices are available to me in the PC marketplace, but they come with other tradeoffs, such as crapware and driver hassles.

I’m skeptical that a strategy of “deeper partnerships” with OEMs can really accomplish the goal of providing “complete experiences with absolutely no compromises.” Better communication can make the next generation of PCs better than the current crop, but the nature of these partnerships means that hardware makers have different goals and philosophies and levels of execution. All those engineering meetings take time and cost money, and it takes time for the results to make it into new systems. That’s why it’s tempting to suggest that Microsoft begin manufacturing its own PC hardware. Unfortunately, that would mean Microsoft would have to compete directly with its hardware partners at the retail level and maybe even in enterprise sales. Those hardware partners bring in the majority of Windows revenue by installing Windows on new hardware. I really don’t see any way that Microsoft could work through that conflict successfully or make the risk worth the reward.

But maybe there’s a way around that roadblock. For years, Microsoft has created reference designs for hardware when it introduces a new category. They’re typically done early in an OS development lifecycle, as a way for partners to see what the new technology looks like in operation. At Microsoft-sponsored hardware conferences over the years, I’ve seen reference designs for remote controls, for Media Center devices, for phones, and for home servers. What if Microsoft created reference designs for PC hardware? What if any manufacturer could license and build PCs based on those reference designs? You could have reference designs for notebooks, for desktop PCs, for home theater systems with CableCARD tuners. The reference design would specify not just the hardware, but the software as well, meaning that customers could count on crapware-free installations and easy-to-update drivers. The idea is to build a machine specifically designed for the current version of Windows and, presumably, guaranteed to show off the operating system at its very best, with no compromises. Contract manufacturers could build the systems and make them available to any OEM, large or small, so that even small-town system builders could deliver a product that would compete with the big guys.

With Microsoft one step removed from the process, the existing OEM business model would be preserved. Reviewers would have a chance to compare big-OEM designs against the Microsoft Reference Design so that measurements of OS performance could actually concentrate on the hardware and not become muddled by variables introduced by third-party hardware and software.

Finally, this would give those big OEMs a chance to put up or shut up on their “innovation.” (and yeah, I hate that word too). Is that new Sony notebook faster or slower than the Microsoft Reference Design? Do those HP diagnostic tools improve performance or drag it down? Does Dell’s wireless utility do a better job than the built-in Windows tool? With a standard hardware platform, everyone would have a baseline against which to compare, and the real innovators would stand out

So, what do you think? Would you buy a “designed by Microsoft” PC?

Pernah dibikin jengkel sama virus? Kecolongan buka aplikasi gak dikenal? Padahal udah pake antivirus tapi gak kedetek? Ato malah emang gak pake antivirus? Udah ketauan itu virus tapi gak mau didelete? Muncul pesan error gara2 lagi dipake sama windows? Kalo Anda menjawab, “YA!” berarti Anda WAJIB coba aplikasi ini. Apalagi software ini gratis..

Aplikasi ini namanya Process Explorer, buatan Mark Russinovich. Versi terbaru adalah 11.21. Cara kerja aplikasi ini adalah memonitor proses apa saja yang sedang berlangsung di windows. Baik proses yang visible atau yang hidden. Nah, biasanya virus, trojan, keylogger, malware, dsb berjalan tanpa terlihat pada processes di Windows Task Manager. Nah, proses yang sedang berjalan itu bisa dibunuh alias kill process beserta anak-anaknya, atau menghentikan proses lain yang berhubungan dengan si virus atau malware yang bersangkutan. Lower pane ditampilkan melalui menu View > Show Lower Pane (Ctrl+L) dan mengganti pane view-nya dengan Handles (Ctrl+H) atau DLLs (Ctrl+D). Kalau ada yang mencurigakan, kill saja. Atau, kalo kurang yakin, cari di google.

Kalo berminat (HARUS), bisa mampir ke webnya. Homepagenya adalah sysinternals.com. Tetapi jika alamat ini dibuka, langsung redirect ke http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/default.aspx. Keterangan tentang aplikasi ini bisa dilihat di sini (new window). Atau kalau mau langsung donlot, bisa klik di sini (left klik aja).

Selain itu, di homepage sysinternals tersebut, ada banyak aplikasi lain yang juga gak kalah tokcer. Ada banyak utilities yang patut dicoba. Lihat saja ‘Top 10 Downloads’nya. Ayo serbu!! Kuras semuanya!!!

Никто из нас не застрахован от ошибок, тем более от мелких.

В досадной опечатке был замечен легендарный человек, которого я уважаю за огромный вклад в развитие программирования под Виндоус.

Его зовут Марк Руссинович (Mark Russinovich), автор популярной книги «Внутри Windows 2000», а так же автор многих не менее легендарных утилит, статей и прочих трудов его профессиональной деятельности.

Я не думаю, что ему от этого стало хуже, зато мне стало от этой находки как-то, приятнее и теплее что ли.

Если кто не в курсе, то Марк написал отличную программу Process Explorer. Качественная и достойная замена стандартному Диспетчеру задач в Виндоус. Очень удобная и нужная мне до усрачки програмулинка!

Опечатка заключается в неправильном имени ключа среди настроек отображения информации о процессе — количество колонок:

Как видно из снимка окна Регедита ошибка в названии ключа «PrcessColumnCount», который судя по контексту, должен быть написан правильно как «PrоcessColumnCount».

Опечатка была замечена мной в версии 11.11, и всё ещё присутствует в версии 11.12 от 7 апреля.

Даже и не знаю чем можно объяснить данную опечатку…

Самое показательное, что программа работает без ошибок и каких-либо отклонений, абсолютно не «замечая» этого недочёта. Скорее всего потому, что каждый уважающий себя программист, если не использует текстовые ресурсы, то по крайней мере использует константы в коде программы. Потому, собственно, программа работает и с такой досадной опечаткой как ни в чём не бывало.

Ссылки связанные с творчеством Марка:

— Блог. Интересные статьи об исследованиях системы Виндоус.

— Сайт, бывший Сисинтерналс, нынешний Виндоус Сисинтерналс на сайте Майкрософт.

— Программа Процесс Эксполорер. Иногда её ещё называют «Процесс Экс», что не правильно.

Quale “simpatico” programma sta utilizzando quel file o cartella particolari rimasti aperti? Ora puoi scoprirlo. Process Explorer, utilità scritta da Mark Russinovich, ti mostra le informazioni sul file aperto o caricato dai processi DLL.

La videata di Process Explorer è composta da due riquadri; quello superiore mostra sempre una lista dei processi correntemente attivi, includendo i nomi dei rispettivi account proprietari, mentre le informazioni mostrate nel riquadro inferiore dipendono dalla modalità di visualizzazione di Process Explorer: se è in modalità handle vedrai nella finestra superiore gli handles che il processo selezionato ha aperto; se Process Explorer è in modalità DLL vedrai le DLL e come sono organizzati i files in memoria caricati dal processo. Process Explorer ha anche una potente capacità di ricerca che ti mostrerà rapidamente quali processi hanno aperto quei particolari handles o caricato quelle particolari DLL.

Le potenzialità uniche di Process Explorer lo rendono utile per la ricerca automatica delle versioni DLL dei problemi o degli handle problematici, e fornisce insieme le applicazioni Windows che li utilizzano.

Process Explorer può essere utilizzato con Windows 9x/Me, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Server 2003 e Windows Vista, e con versioni di Windows a 64-bit, con processori x64 e IA64.

Download Process Explorer (1.6 MB)

Link

Questa utility, scritta da Mark Russinovich e Bryce Cogswell, che rappresenta il più esaustivo sistema di monitoraggio delle applicazioni che si avviano automaticamente, mostra quali programmi sono configurati per essere eseguiti all’avvio del sistema operativo o all’accesso a Windows e mostra le voci dei processi nell’ordine in cui Windows li processa. Questo programma elenca quelli inclusi nella cartella Esecuzione automatica, Esegui e altre chiavi di Registro. Puoi configurare Autoruns affinchè mostri altre locazioni, inclusa l’estensione Explorer, toolbars, gli oggetti di esplorazione dell’Helper, le notifiche Winlogon, i servizi in avvio automatico e molto altro. Autoruns va oltre l’utilità MSConfig compresa con Windows Me e XP.

L’opzione di Autoruns “Hide Signed Microsoft Entries” ti aiuta a trovare le immagini auto-avvianti di terze parti che sono state aggiunte al tuo sistema e supporta la ricerca verso le immagini auto-avvianti configurate per gli altri account memorizzati sul sistema. Nel pacchetto allegato è incluso anche un programma equivalente, Autorunsc, utilizzabile tramite linee di comando, che può mostrare l’output in formato CSV.

Rimarrai probabilmente sorpreso di quanti eseguibili vengono avviati automaticamente!

Autoruns funziona su tutte le versioni di Windows, 64-bit compresa.

Download Autoruns e Autorunsc (490 KB)
Link

Bonjour à tous

Présentation de Process Explorer en format .pdf avec présentation “Shockwave”.

Pour télécharger de Microsoft TechNet cliquez ici:

Jean-Claude Bellamy m’a aimablement autorisé à reproduire ici ses propos sur Mark Russinovich qu’il a tenu au cour d’une discussion sur le groupe microsoft.public.fr.windowsxp suite à une question de M.Gilles Pion concernant l’arrivée de Mark Russinovich chez Microsoft:

«
> http://www.sysinternals.com/blog/2006/07/on-my-way-to-microsoft.html
>
> Que faut-il en penser?

Cela ne me surprend guère….

Cela fait très longtemps que Mark et NTInternals (éclaté en “Sysinternals”
pour les applis freeware, et “Winternals” pour les produits commerciaux) est
un très grand spécialiste de Windows, et donc très connu chez MS.

Lors de la sortie de NT4 (1996), c’est lui qui a affronté publiquement MS en
déclarant et prouvant que NT4 SRV (serveur) et NT4 WS (station de travail)
avaient strictement le même noyau et les mêmes DLL de base, contrairement à
ce que prétendait MS pour justifier la différence de prix entre les 2
versions.

A l’issue de cette joute homérique, MS a du reconnaitre les faits !!!

Mais ce qui caractérise Mark Russinovich, c’est son coté “chevaleresque”,
avec un sens de l’honneur permanent.

Par exemple il avait conçu à cette occasion un outil permettant la “conversion” de
NT4 WS en NT4 SRV. J’en parle sur mon site :

http://www.bellamyjc.org/fr/windowsnt.html#NTServerWS

Cet outil s’appelait “NTtune”, mais il a toujours refusé de le diffuser, car
ce n’est pas un pirate! Même moi (qui ai eu l’occasion de correspondre avec Mark
et de le rencontreraux TechEd) je ne l’ai jamais eu!

Un autre exemple :

En 1998, Mark et sa bande ont conçu un driver, “FAT32.SYS”, qui permettait
d’accéder à des FAT32 depuis NT4 (ce qui était impossible, la FAT32 n’étant
gérée par NT qu’à partir de Windows 2000).

Il existait 2 versions, une gratuite et en lecture seule, et une payante (à
un prix ridicule : 39 $) en lecture et écriture.

J’ai acheté tout de suite la version RW, mais ô désespoir, dès que j’ai
voulu l’essayer sur mon NT4 WS FR, pas moyen, échec total.
J’ai alors averti Mark de ce pb, lequel m’a répondu qu’il n’avait pas de
réponse à mon pb pour l’instant (certainement un pb avec ma version FR,
qu’ils n’avaient pas testée), et m’a remboursé immédiatement mes 39 $
(chapeau pour l’honnêteté!)

Malgré tout, ça me turlupinait un peu cette histoire et je DETESTE qu’un
logiciel ou matériel me résiste !:-)
Quelques jours après, je suis retourné sur leur site, et là j’ai vu qu’il y
avait un patch (destiné à corriger certains crashes en cas de copie de gros
fichiers, et des infos erronées données par CHKFAT32.EXE).

Je l’ai téléchargé, puis installé, je suis repassé sous DOS, j’ai modifié
(avec Partition Magic) une partition FAT16 en FAT32 (“pour voir”, sans trop
y croire), j’ai redémarré NT, et là, ôôôôôôôô merveille des merveilles, ma
partition FAT32 est bien apparue, le gestionnaire de disques de NT la
reconnue sans pb (type : FAT32).

Dès cet instant j’ai pu lire et ÉCRIRE des fichiers dans une FAT32 sous NT4,
le pied !

Comme je suis honnête moi aussi, j’ai réécrit à Mark en l’informant de cette
bonne nouvelle, et en lui disant qu’il pouvait redébiter ma Carte Visa.
Et bien il m’a répondu que Winternals ne me ferait pas payer, que c’était
“tant mieux pour moi”, et donc que je pouvais continuer à utiliser FAT32.SYS
légalement et gratuitement ! …(re-chapeau!)

A l’époque (14 juillet 1998), je me souviens avoir terminé mon message (sur
“fr.comp.os.ms-windows.winnt”) par
“Vive Mark Russinovitch et son équipe !!!!”

Mark, par ailleurs, est un brillant pédagogue.

On “sent” qu’il possède à fond son sujet , sans aucune zone d’ombre …
Si bien qu’il sait très bien transmettre son savoir, de façon COMPLÈTE /
CONCRÈTE / CONCISE / PRÉCISE !

C’est aussi un “fana” de l’outil-tout-con-mais-drôlement-pratique, outil que
MS a consciencieusement oublié de fournir avec Windows.

Par exemple:

- “NewSID”, qui permet très facilement de changer
le SID d’une installation de Windows (après clonage p.ex.),

- “ProcessXP” qui détaille de façon ultraprécise les
processus et threads, en particulier permet de savoir
par quoi est utilisée une DLL donnée,

- “PSexec” pour exécuter un programme à distance,

- “RegMon” qui intercepte toute modif de la BDR (je lui dois
énormément !!!! C’est grâce à lui que je suis capable de dire
quelle clef correspond à quel paramètre plus ou moins tordu),
- …

Donc des types comme Mark et son copain Bryce Gogswell commençaient à manquer
chez MS !
Comme Mark est quelqu’un ayant du caractère, je n’ai aucune crainte de le
voir “absorbé” par MS avec ses idées géniales mises au rencart.

Et je remarque que depuis quelque temps MS recrute les “petits génies” de
l’informatique.

Car avant Mark Russinovich, ce fut Ray Ozzie qui a été embauché il y a
quelques mois par MS.

Pour les profanes, Ray Ozzie (universitaire au départ), est celui qui a
INVENTÉ et surtout CONCRÉTISÉ le GROUPWARE.

C’est en effet le “père” de Lotus NOTES et DOMINO, repris par IBM.
C’est lui également (après avoir quitté Lotus/IBM) qui a inventé “GROOVE” en
1997, le 1er logiciel P2P/Tableau Blanc/Chat/Transfert de fichiers/… à
GRANDE échelle sur Internet, avec des années d’avance sur les Kazaa, Emule,
… et Live Messenger !

Donc MS se “recharge les neurones”, on ne peut donc que s’en réjouir … »

Jean-Claude Bellamy intervient sur plusieurs forum et groupes de discussions depuis des années et s’est toujours fait remarquer par la compétemce et la pertinence de ses intervention. JCB est une personne de référence dans les groupes francophones pour les Systèmes NT de Microsoft.

Son site mérite d’être découvert (ou redécouvert): une vraie mine d’or pour qui se donne la peine de l’explorer.

JCB Site

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Mark Russinovich: On my way to Microsoft

Mark Russinovich a annoncé sur son blog que Microsoft a fait l’acquisition de Sysinternals et de Winternals, entreprises fondées par Bryce Cogswell et lui-même en 1996. Mark Russinovich rejoint du même coup le personnel de Microsoft pour la Division Plateformes et Services.

Mark Russinovich nous apprend aussi que Microsoft était encore à évaluer la façon d’intégrer les produits développés par Winternals et Sysinternals.Le site de Sysinternals demeure cependant accessible et les outils gratuits qu’on y trouve sont encore disponibles au téléchargement.

Tout d’abord je voudrais remercier Mark Russinovich et Bryce Cogswell pour avoir mis leur compétence et leur générosité au service des utilisateurs des produits Microsoft Windows.

Depuis des années Sysinternals, sponsorisé par Winternals, a offert gratuitement des outils de qualité tels que Process Explorer, Autoruns et bien d’autres. La qualité exemplaire des produits de Sysinternals est une démonstration de ce qu’est de la bonne programmation, niveau rarement atteint par beaucoup de logiciels parmi lesquels des produits payants à la réputation surfaite …

Je me permet de féliciter Mark Russinovich pour cette nouvelle étape dans sa carrière et à lui souhaiter la meilleure des chances, la santé et la prospérité.

Je ne peux que souhaiter que Microsoft lui fasse une place digne de ses qualités et que la société de Redmond lui procure tous les moyens nécessaires afin qu’il puisse y donner sa pleine mesure, et surtout, sans y perdre son âme ou son enthousiasme.

So, Thank you Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell !

Be happy in this new step of your career Gentlemen !

Voir aussi ces articles:

Microsoft achète Winternals Software

Microsoft acquiert Winternals

Microsoft se paie l’éditeur Winternals

et ceux-ci:

Microsoft buys Winternals, gains Russinovich

SysInternals Shift to One Microsoft Way, Redmond

Pinned: Microsoft Acquires Winternals Software

MS hires rootkit sleuth

Microsoft Buys Winternals; Russinovich Now a Softie

Communiqué de presse de Microsoft:

Microsoft Acquires Winternals Software

I know I am not the first, but I had to say it: my friend Matt is a rock star. And when he becomes famous and rich I will think of the old days when rootkits were made of bits rather than notes.

Matt and his mates have launched their first video clip. You can find it here.

Even Mark Russinovich is talking about it.