There's one thing that this article brings to mind: a joke.
All the world's phone companies came together and analyzed how there were too many standards for phone charges. 35 to be more precise. And that wasn't doing the consumers any good.
So they decided to create an universal standard for all phone chargers. They said so and went about to doing it.
Now there are 36 standards for phone chargers.
For anyone that's ever worked with CATIA, Inventor, SolidEdge, SolidWorks, Kobalt and the rest, I believe they can relate to how frustrating it is to work across many platforms, formating workpieces into highly risky neutral files, and then reformatting them from one software to the other...a nightmare.
Office is universal. Truly universal. Everyone knows how to at least open, create or edit something from MS Office. With a couple of plugins you can make new documents available on old versions of the software. The article in this regard is absolutely moronic as it fails to understand what great benefit we all have from that "unwieldy" piece of software...that everyone can more or less wield for their needs.
So yeah...I don't usually talk in extremes, but I've found the article extremely stupid and more or less insulting in assuming that the majority of the population is having the same trouble as the writer. Dear Mr. Whoever, we are doing well with a piece of software that doesn't require 25 conversions of files from one business to another.
