How "Ignorant of Standards" was Microsoft Really?

"Thus it would seem that in open standards, as in open source, Microsoft will need to adopt a strategy that involves being a more savvy and collaboratively effective player in the overall ecosystem, rather than trying to maintain the hegemony of its historical, proprietary environment through efforts to promote defensive standards across the industry, at least in the face of determined opposition."

http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20080626092009868