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Re:$600 Chromebooks are a dangerous development for Microsoft by osrec on Saturday September 01, 2018 @02:50PM (#17893351)
I was under the impression they did attempt to obfuscate their files. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_POI

We don't have Google level budgets, but I think we can do something worthwhile with what we have. Might take a while, but I'm confident we will manage something good in the budget we are hoping to allocate to the task.

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Re:$600 Chromebooks are a dangerous development for Microsoft by slededit on Saturday September 01, 2018 @02:58PM (#17893386)
FUD goes both ways and the OpenDocument battle was particularly vicious on both sides.

However the code is literally a memcpy of a struct that is used internally. Not being designed for others to easily read isn't obfuscation. FWIW the XML formats designed for that purpose still fail horribly on that front.

Anyways I've worked on spreadsheets for 10 years. File compatibility is the hard part and the rest is easy by comparison (but still pretty hard).

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