scott wrote:

> AIUI, weren't MS kinda "forced" to rush through this "open" document 
> format for some reason?  Something to do with official institutions only 
> being allowed to use open formats or something?

They weren't "forced" to do anything. They could have just let ODF kill 
one of their flagship products, gone bankrupt, and left they way for 
superior competetors to take their place. :-D

> MS probably think it's 
> just as stupid as the rest of us and only did the absolute minimum 
> amount of work to get it through (I guess it was better than just 
> changing the file extension from .doc to .oxml or whatever, but only just).

So now we have an ISO standard that nobody can actually implement?

Genius.

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