> 1) If I want to exchange redlined documents with lawyers, I need Microsoft Word. I cannot run a successful business which deals with law firms without Microsoft Word. Most businesses need to deal with law firms. If Microsoft shuts me out of Word, I cannot have a business.
I find your reasoning here disingenuous. I have been running a business for almost 2 decades, dealing with law firms and everything and I haven't used Word since I was in high school.
Took a consulting gig with RedHat once. RedHat asked for a document. I gave them a LibreOffice .odt doc (that I wrote on Fedora). They rejected that doc due to inability to access it. I sent them a LibreOffice exported .docx file and they again rejected it due to formatting issues. At that point they specifically requested I use Word and send them a Word document.
Microsoft Word makes the world go round. Sure I can use Wordpad and export a docx file, but no tables, no special effects, etc
I find your reasoning here disingenuous. I have been running a business for almost 2 decades, dealing with law firms and everything and I haven't used Word since I was in high school.