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Re:Why are the Microsoft Office file formats so complicated?... by userbinator on Saturday September 10, 2016 @10:46PM (#12471804)
You only linked to the "extensions" MS added on top of OOXML, whose specs are in total an order of magnitude bigger. ISO/IEC-29500 or ECMA-376 is the actual spec, and its first part (of 5) is 5000+ pages. In comparison, 349 pages for the main spec + a 9 page auxillary spec for the document "filesystem" seems almost trivial.

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