re: Microsoft breaks with standards effort

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>I was at a briefing by Microsoft last Thursday at which they said 
>they are committed to the Web Standards Interoperability (WS-I) 
>organization for web standards and to the Business Process Execution 
>Language (BPEL) for web services description.
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A colleague sent me this in regards to the articles about MS and our 
WG - not sure how illuminating it is, but I share it anyway...
  -JH

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