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While Windows includes a rudimentary unbootable system repair tool in the form of the Recovery Console, Microsoft has chosen not to provide an advanced unbootable system repair, diagnosis and recovery environment on par with ERD Commander. The flagship tool is ERD Commander, a Windows Preinstallation Environment (WinPE)-based recovery environment with a familiar Windows user-interface that is the latest generation of the original ERD Commander product we released in 1998 and upon which Winternals was built. The Administrator’s Pak is a collection of powerful system utilities, including enhanced versions of Sysinternals Filemon and Regmon that work remotely and have log-to-file capability, that’s sold to individual systems administrators.
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The Geek Squad provides system repair, data salvaging, and installation services in each of the Best Buy retail outlets and, for an additional significant fee, a 911 service that travels to customer homes to perform repairs on site. This is the first lawsuit Winternals has ever initiated, and we did not approach the decision lightly.īest Buy acquired the Geek Squad several years ago and has grown the unit to a size of approximately 12,000 employees that analysts estimate will generate over a billion dollars of revenue this year alone.
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What the press coverage to date might not have made clear is what Geek Squad and Best Buy did prior to approaching Winternals in October 2005 about a license to our software, what they continued to do after terminating licensing discussions in February 2006, and why we felt we had no alternative but to protect our software through the legal system. By now many of you have heard via Slashdot, arstechnica, Digg, or your local newspaper that Winternals Software, the company I co-founded with Bryce Cogswell in 1996, filed suit in Federal court against Geek Squad and Best Buy for illegal use of the Administrator’s Pak. This post I’m taking a break from my standard technical postings to discuss a disturbing discovery regarding a large corporation’s unauthorized software usage.