Microsoft-supported formats are badly documented, and regularly broken by updates of the software before changes are understood (if there’s even an update to the loose spec we used to have). That’s a problem.
I’ve had a resume and a work report, both look good for me but totally broken in word.
In my experience this means that the only way to be sure that your docx document is going to look right when shared with other people is to use MS Word, thereby locking us all in.
“The end-user” is another way to say “everyone in the developed world”, and nobody is refusing to collaborate with Microsoft here. What has happened is that Microsoft then agreed to collaborate, did so in bad faith, and released what they are calling and open standard, but it is neither open nor standard.
OnlyOffice appears to be trying their best to adhere to this “standard”, but their best efforts are still resulting in substantial rendering differences of the same document in OnlyOffice and Word. That means to me that at least one of the following must be true:
every of the many 3rd party attempts to adhere to the standard was done poorly and failed
the standard does not work or is not strict enough to be possible to adhere to
the standard is intentionally sabotaged so that it cannot work
The dubious events around the establishment and adoption of this “standard” make me lean strongly toward the 3rd option,which is in keeping with entire documented history of Microsoft’s hostile, aggressive, and bad faith business practices.
how does using docx lock users to microsoft? you can use onlyoffice to open and edit docx, ya dont need microsoft 365? pls explain to me guys
Microsoft-supported formats are badly documented, and regularly broken by updates of the software before changes are understood (if there’s even an update to the loose spec we used to have). That’s a problem.
Microsoft will break compatibility as soon as they want to, leaving onlyoffice docx users with no option than buying Microsoft Office, eventually.
I’ve had a resume and a work report, both look good for me but totally broken in word.
In my experience this means that the only way to be sure that your docx document is going to look right when shared with other people is to use MS Word, thereby locking us all in.
but this is really only true and a problem for the end user, and you can’t maintain an empire by refusing to collaborate with the larger userbase.
that’s how Adobe became an industry standard. They eventually claimed the larger userbase and businesses had to adapt or spend millions on training.
“The end-user” is another way to say “everyone in the developed world”, and nobody is refusing to collaborate with Microsoft here. What has happened is that Microsoft then agreed to collaborate, did so in bad faith, and released what they are calling and open standard, but it is neither open nor standard.
OnlyOffice appears to be trying their best to adhere to this “standard”, but their best efforts are still resulting in substantial rendering differences of the same document in OnlyOffice and Word. That means to me that at least one of the following must be true:
The dubious events around the establishment and adoption of this “standard” make me lean strongly toward the 3rd option,which is in keeping with entire documented history of Microsoft’s hostile, aggressive, and bad faith business practices.