[megaman22]

Why? Businesses run on Office docs, spreadsheets, and powerpoints, and conceivably will for the next 30 years, until everybody who came up under the current regime ages out of management positions. At which point the next generation will have been inculcated with Officisms, and so the cycle will repeat, perhaps losing a bit of steam in each cycle.

Don't get me wrong, I would love to swap over almost everything that we currently use Word for to just be some combination of Markdown and HTML, but beating my head against the inertia and trying to get people to invest an hour or two of time in learning something they don't already know is demoralizing.