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.

  • Pycorax@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    19 hours ago

    The web version is even worse! It’s all cloud-based, and you need a subscription unless your University pays for a license.

    You don’t actually need a subscription for the cloud web version actually. It’s ass though.