[odf-discuss] Joel on Software - Why are the Microsoft Office file formats so complicated?

[Russell Ossendryver]

Last week, Microsoft published the binary file formats for
Office<http://www.microsoft.com/interop/docs/OfficeBinaryFormats.mspx>.
These formats appear to be almost completely insane. The Excel 97-2003 file
format is a 349 page PDF file. But wait, that's not all there is to it! This
document includes the following interesting comment:

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/02/19.html
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