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It's a deprecated format that was essentially Microsoft's first experiment at an XML based format in the Office XP/Office 2003 days... whether it will continue
by the_why_of_y 12y ago
It's a deprecated format that was essentially Microsoft's first experiment at an XML based format in the Office XP/Office 2003 days... whether it will continue to be supported in future versions is anybody's guess, given that the successor format OOXML is much more widely adopted.
- Mikhail_Edoshin 12y agoMy impression is that Microsoft is fairly reliable when it comes to supporting old formats and standards. E.g. I can still send Word and Excel DDE commands and this is a tech from 90s, Windows 3.1 and stuff. OOXML is certainly more powerful, but it's also more complex.