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That hit me right in the feels, lol. > Microsoft engineer looks at crack pipe... “Yea, let’s put an entire filesystem inside this new document format”
by genmud 5y ago
That hit me right in the feels, lol.
> Microsoft engineer looks at crack pipe...
“Yea, let’s put an entire filesystem inside this new document format”
- unilynx 5y agoYou mean like ODF and DOCX still are zip files, basically a file system? It was there for a reason - you could embed documents/excelsheets/external apps that supported OLE into each other (think adding an editable excel graph to your document). And the FAT-like OLE file format allowed you to do partial updates to a file in place, which was pretty useful given the slow write speeds of hard disks or even floppy drives. Fully rewriting the whole ZIP/DOCX file on ever Save like we can do now wasn't an option then. I'm not sure if, given the requirements driven by that embedding use case, the engineers could have come up with something better in the 90s.