Microsoft Forges Smart Partnerships
eWeek | at | by Mike
Microsoft made a great move July 18 when it acquired Winternals Software, a purveyor of Windows diagnostic software, including the Sysinternals line of freeware utilities.
A few months ago, I had the pleasure of using the Sysinternals tools while laboring to identify the source of a mysterious slowdown crippling the Windows XP-based laptop of a friend of mine. With the view that Sysinternals offered into the inner workings of Microsoft's typically closed operating system, I was able to track down the troublea corrupt Windows Update log file that the system kept trying to read, causing the drive to thrash endlessly.