that sets them and Microsoft is part of it. They were very vocal in helping set the standards in the early 1990s. However, when the committee insisted any proprietary stuff had to be given up licence free if they wanted it to be an approved standard. Then MS went on to ignore all the industry standards since then, except where the market has forced them to comply, such as USB. The worst thing about Microsoft is that every standard they've ignored they change every few years to increase their profits