[Swordmaker]

Do you have any idea how much effort would be required to rewrite Office?

Why should they have to do that? Just document the APIs they are keeping hidden from other publishers who could compete with Office.

[Favor Center]

“Why should they have to do that? Just document the APIs they are keeping hidden from other publishers who could compete with Office.”

They are in the process of doing that. However, quite a few of those libraries are built for the project. As in “part of Office” and not Windows APIs.