Guess I'll create a new meme for the 4 Frame February theme [4FF] - eviltoast
    • pete_the_cat@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      That they be compatible with one another. Word and DOCX are the standard, but Microsoft intentionally making it difficult in order to drive profits.

      • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
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        9 months ago

        You’ll never be able to predict all potential scenarios, one program will always interpret things one way and the other program will apply it’s own logic and interpret things its own way.

        The only way you could have 100% compatibility is if they ran an “emulator” of each other behind the scene for when it’s a document in the competitor’s format that gets opened and I’m sure you can understand why that’s not happening…