Couldn't agree more. As someone who did, back in the day, dabble with the binary representation of the "composite document" format of early Word/Office files, I

Couldn't agree more. As someone who did, back in the day, dabble with the binary representation of the "composite document" format of early Word/Office files, I have to say I admire the work they've done. Even the newer, XML-based version of the document formats suck.