Hi - I'm the Microsoft employee quoted in this ZDNet article. If you want to find out more about Microsoft's OXML policy positions please go to http://www.microsoft.com/office/openxmlpolicy or http://www.openxmlcommunity.org/ 

Regards, 
Nicos Tsilas

why should microsoft be allowed to more monopoly?

ODF for everyone, from the people 

Micro$oft is just EVIL

Finaly a company that ass raps micro$oft! :D

Remember how Microsoft more or less single handedly killed OS/2.
It's only fair that IBM gets to play the same game.
Actually this is more damage to Microsoft's pride than anything. They can make Office do ODF, and there are quite a few things that Office does better than OpenOffice which don't depend at all on file format.

Of course, it's all smoke and mirrors on their part open standards are nothing to do with open source. Microsoft could support ODF like everyone else and still compete.

Uh, except they'd have to compete on merit then, hence the, um, issues they are having.

Oh no, someone else is playing hardball in the standards arena? 

Microsoft, I can quite honestly say:

This is the rest of the world not caring about you.

Yay! Go go IBM!! Respect!