There have been third party support for importing and exporting Office documents as long as I can remember. It was part of Apple’s File Exchange extension in 1994. No one is locked into Office because of file formats.
> No one is locked into Offive because of file formats
A lot of people are locked in because those import/export features are typically imperfect (or perhaps the documents themselves are) and will badly and often "invisibly" (to the non-Office user) break something.
A lot of people are locked in because those import/export features are typically imperfect (or perhaps the documents themselves are) and will badly and often "invisibly" (to the non-Office user) break something.