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Is that a result of an open standard, or from constantly reverse engineering whatever change Microsoft makes?

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I think open standard?

Download is here? https://ecma-international.org/publications-and-standards/st...

MS made it open because...

> More than a year after being asked by the European Union to standardize their Office 2003 XML formats, Microsoft submitted 2,000 pages of documentation for a new file format to the Ecma International consortium for it to be made into an open standard. [1]

The competing OpenDocument Format was standardized first though [2].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standardization_of_Office_Open...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument

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