Microsoft doesn't release documentation on their specifications and constantly adds new ones, which are even harder to understand. Format specifications are th

Microsoft doesn't release documentation on their specifications and constantly adds new ones, which are even harder to understand. Format specifications are the reason microsoft is where it is today. It is the single business asset that gave them much needed leverage during the 90ties and earlier 2000s to dominate the enterprise market. Microsoft defended and developed that asset extremely aggressively throughout the years and this policy lead to perceiving MS/Bill Gates as cut-throat businessman.