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LibreOffice slams Euro-Office as ‘de facto ally’ of Microsoft (blog.documentfoundation.org)
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[–] psycotica0@lemmy.ca 6 points 5 hours ago

I basically agree with you, but I'm also a little pedantic, so I'll also say that if the standard format isn't the format MSOffice outputs, then the standard format isn't the format everyone is using, they're using a similar but incompatibly different format. And so if there's an opportunity to pick what the standard must be going forwards, and the actual true OOXML spec has effectively zero users, and what MSOffice outputs isn't an open standard, then you might as well pick ODF which has more than zero users and is standardized.

But again, this is moot if the thing MSOffice outputs is actually actually OOXML now.