Even if ODF is the better format it will continue to struggle unless someone can find a way to get it included into the basic software put in the vast majority of machines being sold.

Right now the average user is buying machines full of Microsoft software, thinking that is the only thing that will safely work on their machine, and purchasing only Microsoft sanctioned after market software.

To kill the monopoly would take at least making the option available to the customer to have a different OS installed from the factory, with the open format software installed with it. If this were an option, especially being that the computer could now sell at a lower price, then there would be the possibility of an open field where the better product would win.