Wednesday 20 February 2008
Joel Spolsky disects MS Office file formats
Joel Spolsky discusses why the Microsoft Office file formats seem so impenetrable. Now that so much time is spent working with files that are designed to be easily parsed by different applications such asPDF, HTML,XML,PNGit is easy to forget that application's native file formats are designed from a very different perspective. It makes even the somewhat flawed abilities of Open Office and AbiWord to read and write MS Office formats impressive indeed.
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