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Ex Excel PM here. Funny enough that spec still exists and it's kind of cool to be able to review them. Over the years my experience was that PM got less and less technical which was frustrating. The Excel team somehow had remained one of the more technical teams in Office (probablly across Microsoft) but definitely saw a tendency to hire less technical and more product management (marketing) style folks. The devs, specially the old school ones who had been on the team for 15+ years kept the tradition of ripping specs to shreds (in a good way). I used to tell new hires it's a shark tank you will be fine unless somebody smells blood.