The Document Foundation criticizes the EU Commission for exclusively using Microsoft's XLSX format in the Cyber Resilience Act consultation.

The Foundation sees this as a contradiction to the EU’s own interoperability goals. Although XLSX is standardized as OOXML according to ISO/IEC 29500, Microsoft’s implementations often deviate from the specifications. Furthermore, features often change undocumented, which complicates compatibility with open-source software such as LibreOffice.

  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    1 day ago

    which complicates compatibility with open-source software such as LibreOffice.

    Or any competitor. Which is why this “standard” should be declared anticompetitive.