The Document Foundation blamed Microsoft for lock-in. HN blamed the author instead. (blog.documentfoundation.org)
The piece traces Microsoft's shift to XML-based DOCX and XLSX after Office 2007, an ISO fight the author calls "one of the most contested in ISO history." Its clean OOXML Strict variant has quietly vanished from recent Office releases, leaving only the messier Transitional format.
A commenter dug up an old post accusing the essay's author of self-sabotage: years of format complaints, they argued, substitute for LibreOffice closing its own feature gap. Another reader's company dropped Microsoft, then hit that same wall anyway.
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