Re: Dear gods...
" I often deal with one colleague in my firm who insists on using LibreOffice to edit spreadsheets, and nobody else can open them - even when he saves them in compatible MS Office format. We should ask him to upgrade to a proper Office suite"
Another way of thinking about that is that your colleague is using open standards and others in the org are paying a huge amount of cash to use a weird proprietary formatted productivity suite from the 90s that only works with itself, and not even different versions of itself... and that vendor intentionally breaks standards so you need to keep paying them. Sounds like you need a new productivity software vendor.
Google has actually nailed the formatting issues with MSFT. How did they do it? The MSFT way - they cut them a check to not intentionally screw up formatting.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
