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I love this screen that shows you exactly why they named it “Office Open” XML: https://i.imgur.com/hnj3sdv.png

It was a pretty big deal when OpenOffice.org's 2.0 release came with OpenDocument as the default file format. Very easy for someone to misread this MSOffice screen and click on OOXML expecting it to mean OO.o.

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Oh wow. I must have clicked through that page dozens of times, selecting "Keep Current" after a quick scan and thinking the 2nd option was talking about Open Office.

> after a quick scan

I have to wonder what sort of psychologists they employ who come up with ideas like aligning the “Word, Excel, PowerPoint” word column in the first selection with “Open” in the second selection so you read that word first and backtrack left to “Office”. Or maybe it's just a happy accident lol