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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
I have no problems with Office continuing to support DDE, for legacy comapt, I just dont see why it should need to do that in its file associations. It should have changed the registry keys it creates to just pass the filename in as a command line argument years ago.
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And who would indemnify MS against damage claims when critical line of business applications fail. Some of the stuff written in VBA (glued together with shims and adapters written in C or even Assembler) would make you weep, but large and small businesses rely on it. Some of it was written pre Windows 98, as in WFW 3.1. Remarkably it still works, no one knows why, or how to change it, assuming they can find the code.
MS won't do anything to harm its core commercial user business - its all it has left just about.
BR