Fair, but I’m talking about home use. These are usually simple documents where they don’t need to share between different programs. Funny, at work we always have to save documents back to the oldest forms possible to avoid venders or old computers in house that still have old software. We save Office documents back to 97 and CAD files back to 2000.
Trouble is, you never know when a home user will want to share a document with someone and you can’t predict what that someone will be running. There’s as much incompatibility between the various Office alternatives as there are between Office and them. It could be something as simple as sending something they’ve written to a friend, or it could be something as important as uploading their resume while seeking employment. In the latter case, you can bet the business will be using Office and, if the home user isn’t and runs up against an incompatibility without realizing it, their resume may not present well and may leave a bad impression when viewed. We may hate the situation (I know I do), and we may not believe that presentation should be as important as it is, but that’s how the deck is stacked at the moment.