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I wish Microsoft Office would use the .odf standard by default. Or, failing that, it'd implement its own published .docx specification correctly, so other office suites can be compatible.
That'd be nice of course. Personally, I just wish everything Microsoft would wither and go away.
The entire purpose of Microsoft standardizing OOXML and implementing it wrongly in Office was to make other office suites irrelevant. ODF was already standardized and countries would have adopted it if MS didn't do the same with OOXML. They stuffed the ISO with members supporting them to do it.
And now that OOXML is a viable standard, they implement it wrongly so that other office suites can't be compatible with MS Office without a lot of extra effort. Any incompatibilities with MS Office will be considered as the fault of other office suites by the general public and government officials.
Expecting MS to do what's right for the customers is putting too much faith in their nonexistent sense of ethics.
At this point Microsoft could use the .odf standard and people won't notice that and they will be using MSOffice anyways.
Only a fraction of us would use LO or OO or anything compatible.
You do understand that all that is by design from Microsoft to ensure it's incompatible so that they can f over the competition, right?