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LaTeX and Org mode are much better and more usable than either Office or OpenOffice for me. I haven't needed to do more than copy-paste into Office documents for the last 4 years. Of course, that's not at all relevant for general market share, but there are viable alternatives depending on how technical you are and your exact needs/restrictions/use-cases.

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How do you open docx and pptx files other people send you with LaTeX and Org mode? ;)

Sending docx and pptx files, expecting the receiver to be able to open them is wrong, not OP's fault.

You might be right in a certain philosophical sense, but you're also cut off from communications with 98% of the business world with that attitude.

You could probably use something like pandoc (http://pandoc.org/) for the docx. Not sure how well it works though.

Not sure what to do about pptx.

But the issue here is monopoly. Or do you really think that LaTeX will somehow gain any market share from Microsoft?

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