[ZeroGravitas]

"One thing we have got to change in our strategy - allowing Office documents to be rendered very well by other peoples browsers is one of the most destructive things we could do to the company. We have to stop putting any effort into this and make sure that Office documents very well depends on PROPRIETARY IE capabilities."

-- Bill Gates, 1998 a memo to the Office product group[2]

Seems like the guy in charge knew when to actively "stop putting effort into" things and intentionally sabotage the open web when necessary.

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bill_Gates

[walid]

Ironically the reason I've tried my best to avoid MS Office is because they are not easily accessible by anyone. I once sent my CV as an HTML file along with a PDF. Still to this day, I prefer to send HTML and PDF over sending a Word document they only need an app that everybody uses, a browser.