A long blog post to explain the artificial complexity of XLSX files, as compared to ODS files: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/09/27/the-artificial-complexity-of-ooxml-files-the-xlsx-case/ @opendocument @LibreOffice

[italovignoli@mastodon.uno]

A long blog post to explain the artificial complexity of XLSX files, as compared to ODS files: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/09/27/the-artificial-complexity-of-ooxml-files-the-xlsx-case/ @opendocument @LibreOffice

[77nn@goto.77nn.it]

@italovignoli Thanks! That was a great post! I never really deep dived into MSO open formats, and when I had to programmatically access Word documents I only found libraries using Office APIs (wanting Office installed on the target system) and never accessed files directly.