If I recall correctly - they did it for security reasons. i.e. Internet Explorer was so full of holes they thought the Word HTML rendered would be easier to keep secure.
In the sense that it did a lot less and thus presented a smaller attack surface, they were right.
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If I recall correctly - they did it for security reasons. i.e. Internet Explorer was so full of holes they thought the Word HTML rendered would be easier to keep secure.
In the sense that it did a lot less and thus presented a smaller attack surface, they were right.
Guess its a pity Microsoft never heard about sandboxing, eh?