LibreOffice calls out Microsoft for using "complex" file formats to lock in Office users

Microsoft being an illegal monopoly for the checks notes* twenty-fourth official year.

Just out-and-out assholes for the fiftieth straight year.

It's been like that since the files got X on the end; docx, xlsx, pbix. They are just zip files containing XML and stuff. This is how you can turn off any password protection of a file, change to zip, disable protection in the XML, change the extension back.

MS has been playing this game since the early 90's

This isn't new, WordPerfect was killed by this among other illegal MS moves.

And now Microsoft is supported in every thread by an army of stan bots.

I remember working with a library called HSSF to read excel files some years ago. It’s an acronym meaning Horrible SpreadSheet Format.

I echo the devs sentiment.

This is the innovation that capitalism breeds. The one they have been telling us all this time, remember?