Why I Dislike Microsoft Word 1. My Stance Word documents are not very portable .
Word documents are in a proprietary format .
Because only Word uses the .doc to save documents, no other software can be used to maintain them. There are some systems that do attempt to handle them by the use of reverse engineering, but these quickly become obsolete as Microsoft releases new versions. The rtf is more open, but it too suffers from lack of third party software. Lack of interoperability . People often ask me why I am so anti-Microsoft.