The antitrust case helped, but it's only thanks to massive reverse engineer efforts by open source developers that this kind of compatibility exists. Even when you have the specs, it's a massive effort to re-implement.
> Being retro-compatible in a walled garden only doesn't make all that sense.
It makes perfect sense from the company's point of view.
>> Being retro-compatible in a walled garden only doesn't make all that sense.
> It makes perfect sense from the company's point of view.
Yeah, for sure, but I was criticizing OP that was praising MS for still being compatible with their own 20+ years old proprietary and hegemonic document format.
> Being retro-compatible in a walled garden only doesn't make all that sense.
It makes perfect sense from the company's point of view.