Summary: Not only does Microsoft besiege the OSI's Board; it also has staff on the payroll (Microsoft's money) pushing the OSI in Microsoft's direction; the OSI actively works to undermine its own mission, having taken money from (been bribed by) its foremost foe half a decade ago
They don't care about the users and issuing a few bytes with random characters costs them next to nothing. It gives them control over billions of human beings.
If even one media outlet told you in 2010 that Microsoft would fall from 100% (of Web requests) to about 1 in 8 Web requests, you'd probably struggle to believe it