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Microsoft Office is using an artificially complex XML schema as a lock-in tool
(blog.documentfoundation.org)
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this post was submitted on 19 Jul 2025
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Are they referring to OpenXML, the format used in modern office documents?
What are they suggesting? To build a new standard set of specs to replace it?
For what it matters, without reading the 8000 pages of specs I still managed to programmatically produce a spreadsheet document from scratch. It took me a few tens of hours, that's true, but it wasn't that difficult after all.
They are suggesting Microsoft should use their own standards in a way that doesn't require a bug for bug reimplementation of MS Office to read.