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Re:Audacity is a poster child for what can be achieved with ... by tlocke on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @10:15AM (#27748886)
One big problem with MS-Office is that it defaults to proprietary formats (xlsx, docx and the like) but LibreOffice defaults to Open Document Format. So with LibreOffice you can avoid getting locked in to a particular office suite.
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Re:Audacity is a poster child for what can be achieved with ... by mapgrep on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @11:42AM (#27750031)
No, docx et al are open - not only are they xml, they are standardized by ECMA and ISO. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Open_XML
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Re:Audacity is a poster child for what can be achieved with ... by zelphirkalt on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @12:25PM (#27750660)
As of 2018-09-09 though:

> While Office 2013 and onward have full read/write support for ISO/IEC 29500 Strict, Microsoft has not yet implemented the strict non-transitional, or original standard, as the default file format yet due to remaining interoperability concerns.

From the very Wiki article you linked. I guess this means, that when you implement the standard to its fullest, you can still have issues opening MS Office documents, because they themselves do not adhere to the standard.

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