Microsoft’s education-focused flavor of its cloud productivity suite, Microsoft 365 Education, is facing investigation in the European Union.

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    25 days ago

    Why is the ability to convert files relevant for the relevance of formatting text?

    If my professor wants a double-spaced document with Times New Roman in 12 point font and 1 inch margins, that’s very easy to do with a plain text file as input (They can load a template with all their defaults in their WYSIWYG editor and paste my text in). If I, as a user, want to convert a formatted document back to plain text to read/edit it (which I prefer), this is unreliable, and can lead to malformed output, especially with proprietary formats like docx that contain images; or flat out impossible with other proprietary formats.