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Why did Office (Word/Excel etc) adopt to Open XML from COM ? Any particular reason(s) ? Or is it just for programming purposes ?

Also , How do i use HTML5/JS/CSS with Office any articles to point me in a right way ?

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there are a lot of reasons to switch to Open Xml. the main issue is that Microsoft moved into Open Standard and you can achieve it in the way Open XML using it.

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