>I'm sure ODT works well for many personal use cases, but can guarantee it will never see adoption in the legal industry. Microsoft Word is the only viable option for lawyers.

The legal industry also uses MD5 to certify digital evidence hasn't been tampered with, that too will eventually bite them in the ass.

Word has only been around for 40 years or so. Lawyers worked differently before it and they'll work differently after it.

I've seen too many things that seemed to be around forever eventually disappear to believe in the permanence of Word.

> I'm sure ODT works well for many personal use cases, but can guarantee it will never see adoption in the legal industry. Microsoft Word is the only viable option for lawyers.

I'm a lawyer, though I'm practicing in a wholly different legal system (Romanic civil law) and another country. Why would you say that?

No issues against .docx and and Word per se, but I hate that stupid ribbon with undying hatred. Thus I use LibreOffice as much as I can, while maintaining a licensed Office 365 setup under dual boot with Windows for cases when I have no other choice.