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Reading is a matter of format, features are a matter of function and „design“. They're not necessarily related to each other, except that some functions need particular data to be stored in one way or another, some ways more beneficial than others.

But as both Microsoft Word and OpenOffice/LibreOffice are large word processor applications, both can read/write DOCX and ODT. The point is: ODT is simpler and respects other standards. Of course people won't stop to use DOCX for pleasing developers, they'll use whatever is put in front of them. And certainly there's a price to pay for such ignorance. The authors jeffcb works with can't just push a button and a well-constructed EPUB, a print-ready PDF or a valid XHTML file get exported and published to even more sophisticated online publishing systems. Why not? It feels like 1998, but in 2015...