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Re:Why are the Microsoft Office file formats so complicated?... by xirium on Tuesday February 19, 2008 @10:04PM (#119394)
I agree. This is bullshit. Xerox PARC solved a superset of these compatability problems by 1985. It was called InterScript ( http://hopl.murdoch.edu.au/showlanguage.prx?exp=5455 ) and it allows editors to preserve unknown elements within compound documents. This makes downward compatability quite trivial.
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