An Argument for Integration
There are two main reasons to leverage the features of Office: one is primarily an advantage for you, the developer or designer of the system, and the other is an advantage for the users of that same system. We'll cover both of these reasons, starting with the one that appeals to you as the developer or designer of the system.
In the olden days of computing, there were many situations where programs had to be written without any operating system available. This meant a great deal of additional work for the programmer because disk access, serial port communication, and other features of the platform had to be managed completely by each individual program. This was bad. Each program ended up doing a lot of the same work, ...
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