[reddalo]

>Word is basically an operating system.

And .doc files are basically a memory dump.

[galangalalgol]

That was certainly true once, but now all that state is serialized to xml amd zipped up. You can unzip it and look at it if you don't value your sanity.

[reddalo]

That's why I said .doc. The format you're talking about is called .docx

[oblio]

So what you're saying is that the files are basically a memory dump formatted as XML? :-p

[galangalalgol]

A selective menory dump that when deserialized can ignore fields not present its version, but yeah.

[someguyiguess]

Dump is a great word for it