alt Hacker Newsand ooxml is basically just a serialization of microsoft office internals, with attributes such as "likeword95" on certain elements..
microsoft made a total piece of steaming turd, and its users dont care.
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RachelF • last Friday at 10:33 PM
Yes, it's bad, but the users _do_ care. Most don't have a choice, business machines have MS Office/Outlook/Teams as default and they can't change.
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I think you are mixing up some things. There are no "likeword95" attributes.
At one point during standardization there was a proposal to add several attributes with names like that although most of them referred to non-Microsoft products like WordPerfect, but it didn't make it into the final standard. That's what you are probably thinking of.
Their purpose was to allow someone writing say a WordPerfect to OOXML converter to mark in the OOXML places that were using some specific WordPerfect formatting that couldn't be replicated in OOXML.
OOXML word processors were supposed to preserve those markings if they encountered them but never add them.