


On July 18, 2006, Microsoft Corporation acquired the company and its assets. Winternals Software LP was founded by Bryce Cogswell and Mark Russinovich, who sparked the 2005 Sony BMG CD copy protection scandal in an October 2005 posting to the Sysinternals blog. The company also sold data recovery utilities and professional editions of their freeware tools. The software can now be found at Microsoft. The website featured several freeware tools to administer and monitor computers running Microsoft Windows. Microsoft acquired Winternals and its assets on July 18, 2006. It was started by software developers Bryce Cogswell and Mark Russinovich. Originally, the Sysinternals website (formerly known as ntinternals ) was created in 1996 and was operated by the company Winternals Software LP, which was located in Austin, Texas. Windows Sysinternals is a website that offers technical resources and utilities to manage, diagnose, troubleshoot, and monitor a Microsoft Windows environment.
