On his personal blog, Mark Russinovich announced today that Sysinternals, a leading in repair software has been acquired by Microsoft.

I?m very pleased to announce that Microsoft has acquired Winternals Softwareand Sysinternals. Bryce Cogswell and I founded both Winternals and Sysinternals (originally NTInternals) back in 1996 with the goal of developing advanced technologies for Windows. We?ve had an incredible amount of fun over the last ten years working on a wide range of diverse products such as Winternals Administrator?s Pak, Protection Manager, Defrag Manager, and Recovery Manager, and the dozens of Sysinternals tools, including Filemon, Regmon and Process Explorer, that millions of people use every day for systems troubleshooting and management. There?s nothing more satisfying for me than to see our ideas and their implementation have a positive impact.

In Sysinternals portofolio are award-products such as Administrator?s Pak, Protection Manager, Defrag Manager and Recovery Manager and lots of free tools such as Filemon, Regmon and Process Explorer, used by many system administrators around the world.

That?s what makes being acquired by Microsoft especially exciting and rewarding. I?m joining Microsoft as a technical fellow in the Platform and Services Division, which is the division that includes the Core Operating Systems Division, Windows Client and Windows Live, and Windows Server and Tools. I?ll therefore be working on challenging projects that span the entire Windows product line and directly influence subsequent generations of the most important operating system on the planet. From security to virtualization to performance to a more manageable application model, there?s no end of interesting areas to explore and innovate.

Mark, known lately as the one who found and fought against Sony’s spyware, will be joining Microsoft as a Platform and Services Division tehnician.

More on his personal blog here.

eefoof.com prides itself as being a new service that offers money to those that upload content.
I registered myseld and I did a little test.
I uploaded a 2 minute video on it a few hours ago. Altought 4 hours have passed, the video is still not available. I was curios to test the site’s other options, but this little experiment kinda let me down.
I know they are new, but wainting four hours for a video to be processed is not acceptable for someone who wants to beat youtube and other famous sites at video content. What are they doing with it? Scanning every single frame for 20 minutes? C’mon already!

5 hours and counting…

With a total of 4 million people connected to the Internet (out of a 22 million population), Romania is not so well educated computer-related. Of course, we have folks at Microsoft and Google, we do a lot of online crime, but that’s not what this story is about.
Browsers are a fun tool to use. We hate Internet Explorer, we pride on Opera and Firefox, we feel good as we use Safari.
In Romania, figures are close to the world trend. Internet Explorer is on a permanent downfall (although reports and articles speculate that version 7 will get back some users), while Mozilla Firefox and Opera are gaining ground.
We conducted a little study in the past month, analyzing the data provided by trafic.ro on top sites in Romania and these numbers came up. IE is at the top, with 80% of the market share. Firefox is gaining, slow and sure, more and more users, this month reaching 13%. We teamed Opera versions 8 and 9 to a single value, 4%, which we consider being low for a fast and capable browser.
We are hoping to see changes in the following months, mainly in Firefox’s favor.

Browser market share in Romania
Internet Explorer 6.x 11.314.000 80%
Firefox 1.0 1.964.000 13%
Opera 560.000 4%
Others 162.000 3%
Total 14.000.000 100%