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Nitpick: Joel is referring to the old BIFF-style format (from 2003 and before) in that quote. The new "Office Open XML" formats are not mentioned in that post a
by colejohnson66 3y ago
Nitpick: Joel is referring to the old BIFF-style format (from 2003 and before) in that quote. The new "Office Open XML" formats are not mentioned in that post at all. However, one of the many criticisms of the Office Open XML formats is that they are, in some areas, nothing more than an XML serialization of the BIFF records.