Comment by lelanthran

I agree with everything in this comment - FWIW, I was on the standards bodies in my country in 2008/2009 to establish a national standard for word processing documents.

We debated the OOXML spec in as much detail as time allowed, but we still didn't get through the entire behemoth of a thing.

ISTR that Microsoft representatives were also on the same subcommittee, and, but the MS rep was pushing very hard indeed to standardise on OOXML.

Too bad the OOXML format, itself, has MS-proprietary binary blobs built into the specification as part of the format.

ISTR we submitted a recommendation of standardising on ODF.