Comment by biztos
5 years ago
> suggesting Word .DOC was going to replace all text files
Outside of the tech world, it pretty much did.
5 years ago
> suggesting Word .DOC was going to replace all text files
Outside of the tech world, it pretty much did.
And in my eyes, that's pretty terrible - we're stuck with a number of proprietary formats for commercial software, the adoption and more widespread support for which has been an uphill battle every single step of the way, since MS isn't incentivized to do that properly.
Honestly, i avoid .doc and .docx as well as most of MS Office formats whenever possible, at this point i just have LibreOffice installed and use all of those native formats: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument
Not only that, but most of these formats are problematic on a technical level - when compared with something like simpler Markdown files or any other text based format, looking things up is needlessly hard, so you can forget about easily searching for some text within a directory of 100s of such files on a server without some niche tool.