14 DAY TRIAL // The Sysinternals Suite is essentially a collection composed of all the Sysinternals Troubleshooting Utilities, and, according to Microsoft, a new, updated version of the suite of tools is available for download as of September 2, 2008. All the Sysinternals items can also be accessed via the Sysinternals Live online service.
At the end of August 2008, the Redmond giant introduced the Desktops 1.0 utility enabling Windows Vista SP1 and Windows XP SP3 users to create, switch between and mange content on up to four virtual desktops. But in the end, after a couple of years since it has been acquired by Microsoft, Windows Sysinternals continues to be largely a project handled by Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell.
"Sysinternals has remained virtually unchanged. One of the things that Bryce and I were concerned about when we came to Microsoft was that the bureaucracy would want to embrace it and would want to exploit it and put it under policy control. Actually it’s been left pretty much untouched. It's just me and Bryce and a Product Manager that have continued to run it," Russinovich stated in a recent interview for TechNet Edge.
Believe it or not, but Sysinternals development, as far as Russinovich is concerned, translates into small amounts of work, mainly in the morning before work or in weekends. And according to him, the situation is the same for Cogswell. But even if the work on Sysinternals is nothing short of a hobby for its two "fathers" the set of tools will continue to evolve.
"Bryce and I have ideas for things that we want to improve," Russinovich stated. "There's a number of enhancements I want to put into Process Explorer, very low level kind of things, like being able to do a more comprehensive analysis of memory usage. For Process Monitor itself we have something really cool, that we should have coming out in the next weeks, and that's network tracing."
The Sysinternals Suite is available for download here.