"Microsoft Brazil President Michel Levy requested a
meeting with Ambassador Sobel on December 20 to discuss ways
forward on working with what he characterized as an
antagonistic GOB. According to Levy, Itamaraty has pressured
the purportedly independent Brazilian Technical Standards
Agency, ABNT to adopt a more aggressive posture against using
XML as one of two possible standards, along with ODF, in
Brazil. In addition, Levy stated that he is in the
possession of unsigned letters from Itamaraty to various
foreign governments requesting that the governments work
together to support only the open source ODF as the
international standard."

Mad Microsoft is mad.