[croes]

>3. Fear of incompatibility with other businesses

That's the reason why malware has it easy because companies still send office documents that should be a PDF.

Most of Words featured aren't used anyway because most people don't know them.

The rest is some Excel tools somebody once created which heavily rely on VBA but nobody can support them because they guy who made them already has left the company.

Have seen that more than once.

[oriolid]

> That's the reason why malware has it easy because companies still send office documents that should be a PDF.

PDF embedding attacks have been a thing for years.

Personally I think that the culture of sending everything as a Word or Excel attachment has a lot to do with the dominance of MS office but if you can't avoid Office-like applications the other options are even worse.

[croes]

PDF is still less worse than Office documents especially if you avoid Adbobe Acrobat Reader