On http://webstandards.org/press/releases/archive/2005/07/05/ it says 'WaSP to Collaborate with Microsoft to Promote Web Standards'.
I'm a bit in doubt as to how I should interpret this, is it Microsoft wanting to do the right thing, or is it about Microsoft pushing W3C web standards as a reaction to the WhatWG (http://whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/) forces?
There are confusing times ahead, as developers are on the one hand moving more and more towards standards, but the standards are being spread over several standard defining camps, in this case the WhatWG and the W3C camps. Microsoft in itself used to be able to define standards too, is this maybe also a sign of them loosing the power to define standards on their own, and now wanting to focus on being an excellent implementer of commonly accepted standards.
As you see, these things are all still rather unstructured in my head, comments are welcomed therefore