Javascript creator blogs about M$ role in the next generation of Javascript
This blog post of Brendan Eich has a lot of links which will give you an idea about how hardball the game is played about the future of Javascript and how Microsoft continues to try to derail the usefulness of the "Open Web" and Javascript in the rescent past and present:
http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/roadmap/archives/2007/10/