The immortality of Microsoft Word
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Legal tech companies consistently fail because software engineers fundamentally misunderstand lawyers' workflows, particularly their misguided obsession with replacing Microsoft Word with alternatives like Markdown or proprietary editors. Microsoft Word remains irreplaceable because it serves as the universal protocol for legal documents worldwide, with its docx format encoding virtually every legal commitment in society, while alternatives cannot meet courts' strict formatting requirements or integrate seamlessly into the decentralized legal ecosystem.
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