What is said here holds true in 1995. Post 2000, interoperability was pretty evident. Microsoft is simply scared that if they made a simple enough format they would lose the hold they have on the Office software.
Computers are faster and robust to handle I/O much better now. If they were by any means a little ethical, they would have created a simpler format and built on top of it instead of changing the entire spec every iteration of their software.
Software does not evolve by retaining irrelevant code.
Computers are faster and robust to handle I/O much better now. If they were by any means a little ethical, they would have created a simpler format and built on top of it instead of changing the entire spec every iteration of their software.
Software does not evolve by retaining irrelevant code.