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Article: OLE 2.0: Windows' ultimate weapon? (Microsoft's Object Linking and Embedding 2.0 standard may mean the end of application software as we know it) (Computer Shopper's Guide to Integrated Software Packages) (Buyers Guide)
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- Computer Shopper
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- November 1, 1993
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You can't look at the integrated software market, or at Windows software suites, without running into speculation about the forthcoming revision of Windows' Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) standard. Does OLE 2.0 mean the end of application software as we know it? Does it herald a future in which applications are merely blank slates that serve as containers for intelligent objects or collections of functions? Will it eliminate any advantage in compatibility gained by buying a suite of programs from a single vendor? The answer to all of these questions is: Maybe.
OLE is a facility that lets Windows users create documents incorporating information from multiple ...