The Office monopoly may still continue today: antitrust proceedings, however, forced Microsoft to introduce a new open and documented format of Office files, which is now the ISO standard. As a result, any program can read and write Word, Excel and PowerPoint files flawlessly, not just Microsoft’s. Microsoft Office was (and still is) such a power that politicians sometimes have to intervene in its case. No wonder it is associated with what it should have been associated with for decades. And nothing else.
