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Mark Lynd (CISSP - ISSAP, ISSMP, PMP, CE|H) is the President of FireScope, Inc., a revolutionary Business Service Management company dedicated to simplifying IT operations for businesses of any size. Mark is the originator of the FireScope solution and began developing it nearly three years ago and continues to architect and drive innovation into the FireScope line with the FireScope operations team.

During Mark's 20+ years in technology, he was named an Ernst & Young’s "Entrepreneur of Year – Southwest Region" Finalist, presented the Doak Walker Award on ESPN and has been covered by numerous publications including Wall Street Journal, Information Week, eWeek, CIO Magazine, CSO Magazine and numerous others. He also served honorably in the United States Army's 3rd Ranger Battalion and the 82d Airborne. Read Mark's full biography.

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September 2007

XP Will Be With Us A Little Longer

So after a great deal of complaining to Microsoft by numerous parties...they have acquiesced, and will continue to sell XP for five more months.  That means manufacturers can continue selling PCs with all flavors of Windows XP preloaded until June 30, 2007.  This is a welcome change and will allow many people including myself to continue to use XP, as numerous people have found Vista more difficult and less useful to use.  I have noted that XP continues to be the OS of choice for many corporate customers, as it is less cumbersome than Vista, and still remains a strong alternative to Vista for road warriors.  We can only hope that Microsoft will work harder to make Vista easier before it finally closes the door on the faithful and respected XP.