Microsoft's Bait and Switch on OOXML standard

seanellis writes: "Rob Weir writes on his blog that Microsoft has pulled a Bait and Switch on maintenance of the Office Open XML file format. Previously, it had repeatedly promised to had over maintenance of the format to ISO, a move designed to allay fears that the format may be further manipulated by Microsoft itself during the maintenance phase. Instead, it turns out that the maintenance procedure will be under the control of the ECMA committee that first drafted the standard. This, of course, is basically under the control of Microsoft themselves. This is exactly the situation that the critics were trying to avoid."