Microsoft's file format perestroika

Why does Microsoft need to document anything about it's ODF support other than a line saying where to find the "save as" or "import"?

If their ODF support is any good at all, it is already well document because ODF itself is documented.

They have to document all the parts of the ODF standard that their implementation doesn't have....and all the extra MS ODF only features that it does have.....and all the features they implement differently than the standard....

Exactly.

I looked in a hackers dictionary somewhere, it said,

"Microsoft" verb, to obfuscate. He Microsofted the file format to make everyone else incompatible.

Actually according to the Wiktionary defn at http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Microsoftify , it's best termed Microsoftify

Quoting:Microsoftify Definition from Wiktionary, a free dictionary * 1 English o 1.1 Etymology o 1.2 Verb + 1.2.1 Synonyms English

Etymology

Microsoft + -ify

Verb to Microsoftify

1. (Can we verify(+) this sense?) (transitive, slang) To load with Microsoft programs. 2. To assimilate into a Microsoft framework.

Synonyms * (load with Microsoft programs): microsoft, Microsoft

That second definition here draws the analogy of Microsoft to the Star Trek Borg, e.g., 'The Borg Collective' at http://www.startrek-voyager.info/j.html