[pwdisswordfish2]

Before they hired/silenced him, those tools were developed by Russinovich.

Comparing the most important product(s) at MS with any other MS product/project and arguing they are somehow "equal" in the eyes of MS (because press releases, marketing) is a losing game.

[jve]

Kernel symbols are NOT published by Mark Russinovich. What would be the purpose to publish them other than aid debugging the kernel and making sense of what's happening under-the-hood?

Debugging stuff and analyzing performance stuff doesn't make me feel like MS would like to hide internals.