Very interesting news today. It appears that Microsoft has purchased the famous Sysinternals company - makers for Filemon, regmeon and the amazing process explorer tool as well as other indispensible utilities. From a technical point of view, these tools are the most commonly referenced non-Microsoft software at Microsoft. When I was teaching IIS classes, I used to say "put filemon on a USB stick and carry it around with you everywhere you go". I also used to joke that I had keyboard macro to reply to emails "use filemon".

And process explorer - I mean - wow. Have you ever tried that thing? It's beyond belief amazing. No one understand the insides of a Microsoft OS like Mark Russonvich and he will be a great asset for Microsoft. In truth, I wonder how this has come about as the last time I talked to Mark (I know him from our frequent intersections at variours speaking events), his working for Microsoft did not seem like a remote possiblity. He's irritiated more than one person by publishing "secrets" about how things work. He's a great guy and I hope made a bazillion doallars on the buyout.

-brett