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graemep
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Microsoft Office is using an artificially complex ...
> When they have a monopoly, places like the EU will frown on purposefully breaking compatibility.
What exactly have they done about it?
piker
3 days ago
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Without knowing too much of the EU history, I have always understood that anti-trust pressure from the EU effectively forced Microsoft to publish the OOXML spec in the first place.
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What exactly have they done about it?