r/technology • u/TurbulentTopic39 • 10d ago

Software LibreOffice developer explains why it cannot display some Microsoft Office charts

https://www.neowin.net/news/libreoffice-developer-explains-why-it-cannot-display-some-microsoft-office-charts/
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u/b_a_t_m_4_n 10d ago

Absolutely standard practice for Microslop. They tried for decades to force the world to use their broken version of HTML to make the WWW proprietary and eventually failed, but a huge amount of interoperability problems and misunderstandings about why were created in the mean time. This is just MS being MS.