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While the critique is correct, the complexity is probably not “artificial”. Rather, it directly reflects the internal decades-old complex architecture of Office applications rather than making any attempt to be an actually useful schema for sharing between applications.

It only exists because Microsoft was desperate to avoid antitrust consequences for the dominance of Office 25 years ago.





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