Best of the blogs: Sure, there are more points to understand when embarking on an SOA project, but David Linthicum starts with the top 5 to worry about. The first, of course, is people. I'll not steal the thunder, but the rest follow that lead. Related: OASIS advances SOA standards via its Open Composite Services Architecture program.

App dev: What with the 'previous versions' feature being left out of the Home Basic and Home Premium incarnations of Windows Vista, Martin Heller points out that it "wouldn't be so bad except that the backups are still being made: you just can't get at them." Only one way to manage that, too. Vista backups you can't have.