Re: Enterprise application compatibility
But RTF was never really open. It's a proprietary standard, if a bit less obscured than the main .doc format. The UK government has some excellent guidelines for open and accessible documents and Microsoft's proprietary formats are discouraged. (Sorry, mobile, can't look it up now)
Of course, once ODF became a thing, MS touted .docx as the same, but it ain't, and even public bodies in the UK still use MS formats far too often.
Because of its near monopoly status people bend over backwards to support Office and its proprietary formats but even to an outsider (I am merely a user) it seems to be a constant game of catch-up. That said, I do still find that Libre Office often makes a better effort at opening older MS documents than newer versions of MS products.
M.
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