¿Sysinternals Suite moved to the Cloud?
As thousands of Microsoft systems administrators and engineers, I use to have my Sysinternals Suite folder wherever I work in. I had it when I was IT consultant and I have it now, I use less tools than before but there is always one useful that made you day. Today Sysinternals is part of the Microsoft TechNet web site which offers technical resources and utilities to manage, diagnose, troubleshoot and monitor a Microsoft Windows environment.
This morning something dawn my attention when I received the Spanish TechNet flash newsletter (I’m still trying to guess if it is a weekly, biweekly, monthly publication or they simply send it randomly). A Sysinternal article was filling the cover, as usual Fernando Guillot and Paulo Dias wrote some lines about it, but looking at the end of the article I noticed that Microsoft has integrated (it is a quite rude integration) the tools on a web interface (http://live.sysinternals.com/ ).
Microsoft describes it like…
Sysinternals Live is a service that enables you to execute Sysinternals tools directly from the Web without hunting for and manually downloading them.
Is that a shabby way to move one of the most used tool suites to the cloud? Didn’t they found a most suitable way to do it than just that? Where are the BeautyOfTheWeb, SilverLight and all those tools that Microsoft has in the pocket?
Personally, I think that Sysinternals Suite deserves everyone’s respect. It includes tools dating from 1996 that have been used since today. Let’s aim Microsoft to put a little bit of more effort on getting these nice tools moved correctly to the cloud.
Just an opinion.