There is no digital sovereignty without ODF
“The HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee was forced in 2020 to rename dozens of human genes – including SEPT1 and MARCH1 – because Excel kept silently converting their symbols to dates. Rather than going to Microsoft and demanding a bug fix, scientists preferred to throw years of established nomenclature down the drain to avoid upsetting Redmond. A revealing precedent.”
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/05/15/no-digital-sovereignty-without-odf/
@resist
From memory they did ask Microshit to fix it but after 8 years of complaining about it and Microshit doing nothing they changed the names.