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An open letter to office suite users, just before the Euro-Office announcement (blog.documentfoundation.org)
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[–] CameronDev@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago

There are also decades document management systems, databases and other 3rd party tools that only speak ooxml. Defaulting to odf guarantees that documents will be incompatible, which will cause unnecessary friction.

All it takes is one high up civil servant to hit this issue, say "The MS tools never did this", and the entire transition will be in jeopardy. The people using these tools want to create documents that are compatible, that is ALL they care about.

HDDVD and betamax lost the format war. So did ODF. Its time to move on.