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It is unbelievable we do not have standard document format.
What's messed up is that, technically, we do. Originally, OpenDocument was the ISO standard document format. But then, baffling everyone, Microsoft got the ISO to also have
.docxas an ISO standard. So now we have 2 competing document standards, the second of which is simply worse.That's awful, we should design something that covers both use cases!
There are now 3 competing standards.