Another day, another complaint about Microsoft from LibreOffice. This time, LibreOffice accuses Microsoft of intentionally using overly complex XML to define documents and lock in users.

Another day, another complaint about Microsoft from LibreOffice. This time, LibreOffice accuses Microsoft of intentionally using overly complex XML to define documents and lock in users.

  • hperrin@lemmy.caEnglish
    7·
    4 days ago

    It’s more egregious to me that if you properly implement the Office Open XML [sic] formats, it won’t work with MS Office, because they don’t follow their own specs.

    Microsoft Office 2013, 2016, 2019, 2021 and Microsoft 365 continue to read and write files that are conformant to ISO/IEC 29500 Transitional by default. Microsoft Office 2013 and later fully support ISO/IEC 29500 Strict,[73]but do not use it as the default file format because of backwards compatibility concerns.[74]

    - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_software_that_supports_Office_Open_XML