Why was OLE dropped?

[Haneef Tayob]

Anyone know of reasons why OLE functionality was dropped in ArchiCad10?

OLE allowed one to have live links to other files such as documents and spreadsheets placed in Archicad/plotmaker. The workarounds have been covered in other posts, but I'm still wondering why it was dropped.

[Djordje]

Commercially very viable, comparing the number fo Windows licenses to Mac licenses (sorry, Ben ... facts.)

Maybe not OLE, but SOMETHING that reads LIVE Word and Excel documents. Mac OS and Windows both.

[Anonymous]

Now what about the

ALL-NEW-ALL-SINGING-ALL-DANCING

.xml file type?

Maybe ArchiCAD can be even smarter than allowing live files to be updated.....


(or so the snake-oil salesman would have you believe....)!