> Faced with demands for openness, Microsoft could have produced a clean, modern spec and keep the mass pile of legacy inside the application. Very, very few p

> Faced with demands for openness, Microsoft could have produced a clean, modern spec and keep the mass pile of legacy inside the application. Very, very few people care about openness. Maybe a few hundred. Tens of millions care about docx capturing exactly what their doc files had. Microsoft made the correct choice.