1. 程式人生 > >Ask HN: Why did Microsoft not use HTML as the format for its word documents?

Ask HN: Why did Microsoft not use HTML as the format for its word documents?

Is there any critical functional difference between doc vs. HTML format for storing documents? Seems like in 2018, if a new Word processor were to be made, it might as well store documents in HTML format so that they can be viewed in browsers?

Of course, this might undermine the word processor itself as now anybody is free to reverse engineer your format.