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Post #3882986

2026-07-17 10:21 UTC

How proprietary formats have become Microsoft’s main tool for lock-in https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/07/17/microsofts-main-tool-for-lock-in/ #libreoffice #tdforg #odf

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  • @GrahamDowns@mastodon.africa 2026-07-17 10:28

    @libreoffice@fosstodon.org To be fair, odt is significantly larger than docx. Which I guess makes sense, since docx is zipped. I found this out when someone sent me a docx yesterday, and I made changes to it, and then saved it as an odt before sending it back to him (because I want to start exposing more people to odt, and MS Word opens those fine). I was shocked at the file size difference. So as an experiment, I saved my edits as a docx too, and confirmed it: the docx was like 20kb smaller than the odt. :/

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  • @libreoffice@fosstodon.org Unfortunately, all too common. Fell for the OneNote trap and exported everything before I left the thing that allowed me to use OneNote actively... now I'm stuck using some other software on my Mac to use the OneNotes I exported. It is better than OneNote to a degree though.

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  • @anarchic_teapot@oc.todon.fr 2026-07-17 11:09

    @libreoffice@fosstodon.org They always were, kid, they always were.

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  • @Ralph@hear-me.social 2026-07-17 13:21

    @libreoffice@fosstodon.org #alttext An OOXML Protest in Oslo, Norway, held on April 9, 2008. Their signs read: NO TO OOXML as an ISO-standard. PLEASE INVESTIGATE. Ecma: WITH-DRAW OOXML!

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