Doing better than Apache, but is that saying much?

Some of those initiatives didn't withstand the kind of small-minded, short-termism that pandered to Microsoft's OOXML standards-buying and lobbying, however. When public institutions with relatively generous budgets cannot be bothered to look beyond clicking "save" (ribbon or otherwise) in Microsoft Whatever, one can only imagine the kind of poverty they plead for their behaviour when budgets are actually reduced.

All these people now look to "the cloud" to solve all their document management problems, meaning that they now have another problem to deal with. Especially when Office 365 becomes Office 360, as has been known to happen. In short, there are lots of stupid/ignorant people who actually think lock-in is good, hard as it is for us to believe.