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Re:Nantes Métropole completes switch to LibreOffice by gtk40 on Thursday March 24, 2016 @01:10PM (#11354528)
I find that newer versions of Office (especially 2013 and 2016) support Open Document (e.g., .odt) better than LibreOffice supports Open XML (e.g., .docx).
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Re:Nantes Métropole completes switch to LibreOffice by alasarmas on Friday March 25, 2016 @03:17AM (#11358858)
I would certainly believe it, considering (naively) that one expects the cost of implementing a standard to be directly related to the length of that standard: checking the ISO Publicly Available Standards page[0], I found 6760 pages of Office Open XML standard (ISO 29500) and 1996 pages of Open Document Format standard (ISO 26300).[1]

[0] http://standards.iso.org/ittf/PubliclyAvailableStandards/

[1] The link to Technical Corrigendum 2 for Open Document Format in [0] is broken, so I included a version I found at https://www.nen.nl/pdfpreview/preview_166227.pdf, which was seven pages long.

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