>Microsoft eventually hired him to shut him up.

Well i don't buy that part. When I first came across sysmon/regmon/procmon, I found it to be an amazing piece of work. An extremely small free standalone program that gave you a realtime insight into the OS? Heck, if I kept a list of people to hire, he would definitely be on it!

That thing was even 1/10 of the "hello world" Go program I compiled!!!*

*(~100Kb vs 1Mb) I know Garbage Collection adds a lot to size but its still a fun comparison.