Original sentence: Peter Amstein and the Microsoft Office team are reluctant to make liberal use of extension mechanisms, even though provided in ODF 1.1.The company had previously reportedly stated that "where ODF 1.1 is ambiguous or incomplete, the Office implementation can be guided by current practice in OpenOffice.They want to avoid all appearance of an embrace-extend attempt.org, mainly, and other implementations including KOffice and AbiWord
Edited sentence: " (Peter Amstein, August 2008)."[T]he Microsoft Office team [had also stated a] reluctan[ce] to make liberal use of extension mechanisms...provided in ODF 1.1.The company had previously stated an intent for interoperability "where ODF 1.1 is ambiguous or incomplete, the Office implementation can be guided by current practice in OpenOffice.org, mainly, and other implementations..."