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Microsoft won’t support Office apps on Windows 10 after October 14th (www.theverge.com)
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[–] jabjoe@feddit.uk 8 points 8 hours ago

It's vendor lockin. Office file formats are not properly open. There is a "temporary" closed bit that they promised to open to get through ISO, but then never did. The whole ISO thing was a massive exercise in corruption. Let alone the fact the reference implementation is closed. Shame Groklaw isn't as easy to search and link now.