CNET links to an article on Groklaw that analyzes Microsoft's submission to ECMA of Microsoft's XML-based Office formats. Groklaw finds lots of issues of concern in Microsoft's submission.
Disaggregation of authority leads to trust; disaggregation of ownership leads to sharing. Microsoft doesn't seem to want to do either with their XML document format, and as such they're unlikely to gain any traction in the open-source community with their new format. Given Microsoft's past behavior when standards threaten their monopoly, their submission to ECMA is probably just another attempt to undermine the Open Document format.
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