> For what it's worth, docx is technically standard. Not sure how that pans out in practice. It doesn’t, basically,—the spec isn’t enough to render it, and Mic

> For what it's worth, docx is technically standard. Not sure how that pans out in practice. It doesn’t, basically,—the spec isn’t enough to render it, and Microsoft has stopped engaging with ISO in favour of publishing what is now nineteen major versions[1] of their own spec in step with Office updates. There also was a huge shitstorm[2] around the ratification of the original, unsurprisingly given how useless and patent-infested it was. [1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/openspecs/office_standards/ms-docx/b839fe1f-e1ca-4fa6-8c26-5954d0abbccd https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/openspecs/office_standards... [2] http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=2007011720521698 http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=2007011720521698