Speaking of proprietary formats, it seems Microsoft still believes in closed standards for Office documents, and in an uncharacteristically aggressive way let me say, regardless of how open they are,

I HATE *.DOC FILES !!!

I have loathed them ever since the bad old days when people were unwittingly emailing confidential information to each other courtesy of the retarded Fast-Save feature [which was on by default]. More recently the revision tracking features have caused similar problems. I hate the stupid ~backup files which appear in the same folder as the document you’ve just opened. I hate it when people link directly to doc files and IE loads its stupid OLE Word toolbar giving you an ugly stupid disk thrashing experience when all you want to do is read a few pages of tech notes [I’m looking at you too, Acrobat Reader ].

I want a word processor that uses HTML+CSS as its primary document format. Any recommendations…?

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