Microsoft to drop support for Vista and XP SP2

Posted by William McBorrough, MSIA, CISSP, CISA, CRISC, CEH | News | Monday 1 March 2010 11:07 am

will drop support for Vista (without any Service Packs) on April 13 and support for XP SP2 ends July 13. (i.e. no more updates). If you are still running these, it it time to update.

About: William McBorrough, MSIA, CISSP, CISA, CRISC, CEH:
William J McBorrough is a Security Expert with many years of success Managing, Designing, and Implementing medium and large enterprise Physical and Information Technology Security Solutions. His experience spans the spectrum from small e-commerce start-ups to multi-campus state and federal agencies to global financial sector organizations. He is on the faculty of various universities including University of Maryland University College, EC-Council University, George Mason University and Northern Virginia Community College where he conducts research and teach graduate and undergraduate courses relating to cybersecurity, cybercrime, cyberterrorism, and information security and assurance. He holds a Bachelors of Science in Computing Engineering with a concentration in digital networks and a Masters of Science in Information Security and Assurance. He is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (), Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), Certified in Information System Control (CRISC), and Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH).He is well versed in personnel, systems and network security management. His core competencies include Developing cost effective solutions to enable mission assurance in the following areas: Enterprise Management, IT Governance, Security Organization Development, Information Security and Assurance
Website:http://www.linkedin.com/in/mcborrough
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