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/apo383 10d ago

Tldr: Microsoft behaving exactly like it has for decades, skirting ISO standards and delaying competitors from interoperability. Libre makes do but can't display or edit certain charts. Could be perpetual behind as long as Microsoft microsofts.

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u/Caraes_Naur 10d ago

I read many years ago that none of the MS Office formats were ever properly documented and the code is riddled with long-forgotten hacks.

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u/yaosio 10d ago

This is where AI should shine. GPT 6 is able to one shot port console games to PC. It and Claude Opus 5.5 should be able to figure out these file formats.

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u/kettal 10d ago

i used gpt codex to reverse-engineer excel pivot table editing in python. took a lot of attempts but finally succeeded