Notes from the field: Microsoft’s patch brouhaha last Tuesday got a bit rowdy when svchost.exe hijacked users’ CPU cycles. “A hotfix issued by Microsoft has done nothing to solve the problem,” Cringely writes in Microsoft: We canna taka no more, cap’n. Disabling Automatic Updates seems to be the best workaround, Cringe asserts. “I suspect the Romulans had a hand in all this.” Special report: SOA is everywhere in the tech realm these days. As the model gains momentum, though, it’s becoming clear that there are SOA bottlenecks, particularly when trying to scale. “The good news,” pipes Galen Gruman, “is that by understanding these barriers you can plot a way around them.” Other obstacles include actually getting the concept and selling the dream. Startups: Two-year old Talend is looking to make BI for the masses more than just an empty mantra by driving costs down via open source. Or at least the ETL piece. “We are already seeing integration work at companies that could not dream of data integration a few years ago,” says vice president of marketing Yves de Montcheuil. Or view the Month of Enterprise Startups slideshow. Related: VCs take startups on the road. Best of the blogs: In response to Microsoft’s claim that Linux and other open source products infringe on patents it holds, Matt Asay fires back in Put up or shut up, Microsoft. “We’re left with chimera. It’s hard to get excited about paying Microsoft’s poll tax when Microsoft refuses to substantiate its claims.” Security