NoOOXML

MSDN Australia, Microsoft's Developer Network, is recruiting puppets to support their broken file format at the National Body Standards Australia.

Here is what they say:

We really need help from you all to make Ecma Office Open XML a standard and we need support from Australia. Would you be able to sign up to the community so that we have the support to get this through. All you need is list a company name, URL and one contact.

Reading further:

2. Send a letter of support to be addressed to the local standards body. A suggested template for that letter of support is attached.

That might be useless without technical comments on the standard, at least that's what the CNI is saying according to Pavel Janik:

The good atmosphere was destroyed by Petr Wallenfels (not his fault though) from ČNI who has shown us several (approx. 30) letters from Microsoft partners and customers. They have all almost the same contents "We would like ČNI to accept this proposal, because …". There was no negative letter. Fortunately this is not how ČNI works. The complete process was transparent and only technical comments were allowed. Looks like all writers were victims of some business politics around OOXML. This was the only sad point in the meeting. It was poor from the person/company who organized this.

Sounds like the same case as with the US JTC1. All these irrelevant people were sending the same MS form letter to the secretariat. No technical merit whatsoever, simply propaganda along the lines of "MSOOXML is an excellent specification and we want it to become a standard". Standards bodies operate in rather peculiar ways, but the 4 I'm familiar with would ignore these form letters and possibly demand only technical comments from voting members if they suspect some entity is trying to stack the votes.

I guess that if these 30 letters with the same content qualifies as propaganda, the no-ooxml letters to national bodies also are propaganda.