My wife worked in one of the national standardization organizations. She was urgently called into her boss' office: "Please be on this meeting with me, I think they will try to bribe me if I'm alone". It only happened once while my wife worked there and it was right before the vote where Microsoft tried to fast track their office format.

It's what we the old farts have been saying during decades. Do not ever trust Microsoft, they are corrupt beyond hope, they're evil.

But people got blindsided by the new Microsoft propaganda.