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24 days agoI suppose that makes sense. Either way though workers will have to be trained to understand the difference between the two formats and when it’s appropriate to use each. Seems like ODF will be more likely to get adopted if it’s the default, with a reminder built in to use OOXML if sharing with someone outside the organization (obviously in more user-friendly language).
No one has done that because no single person can do that by themselves.
I’ve participated in technical migrations of large organizations full of non-technical, unmotivated users. It sucks regardless.
And we can’t just keep lowering our expectations re: people interacting with technology. Desktop computers, office suites, and file formats are concepts that came into the non-techie consciousness 20 years ago now. The people who refuse to use an extra 5 brain cells to try to understand this stuff should not be the baseline we cater to.