The news beat: Windows and Office have been its bread and butter, but now that Microsoft has hit the ripe old age of 30, the company is expected to bet its future on services, not software. Phishing attacks, not the cures, are growing more sophisticated. And Intel backs Virtual Iron, a virtualization provider. Best of the blogs: Tired of Oprah’s books club? Then David Linthicum recommends half a dozen books about SOA. Oliver Rist spreads the word that the SOX compliance deadline for SMBs under $75 million has been extended to July 2007. And Dave Rosenberg, in Enterprise IT Observations Round II, weighs in on SOA, virtualization, backup, data centers and managed services. His conclusion: It’s ugly out there. Security: Zero Day scribe Victor Garza agrees with Larry Ellison when it comes to encryption, but rants about the upcoming announcement Microsoft, Treo and Verizon have slated for today. Despite the pending deal, Garza is skeptical that Verizon will even be the first to come out with the Treo 700. Its competitors had the Treo 650 a year before Verizon, after all. Open source: Neil McAllister explains how Dell is banking on Linux to take the company’s hardware all the way up the enterprise food chain. Technology Industry