How proprietary formats have become Microsoft’s main tool for lock-in
The answer, in the case of document formats, lies in a single page produced by Microsoft Office.
For decades, the dominant format for office documents has been that produced by Microsoft Office.
A standard that only one implementation fully supports is, from a functional point of view, a proprietary format with a standardisation certificate.
Lock-in, from the individual to the institutionDependence on document formats is the main mechanism of lock-in, but it is not the only one.
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