> 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

Well yes, there was that option, but unsurprisingly they didn't choose it 
:-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?

But at least any organisation that has some rule like "you must only use 
software than supports open formats" can still buy MS Office.

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