Editing Object Linking and Embedding (section)

== Competition ==
[[OpenDoc]] technology tried to compete with OLE. Some of Microsoft's competitors{{Who|date=August 2024}} considered OpenDoc to be more robust and easier to use. OpenDoc allowed users to view and edit information across applications, directly in competition with Microsoft's proprietary OLE standard. In 1993 some Microsoft competitors established a consortium called the Component Integration Laboratories ("CIL") to develop OpenDoc as an [[open standard]] for cross-platform linking and embedding.

Microsoft required OLE compatibility as a condition of Microsoft's certification of an application's compatibility with [[Windows 95]]. Microsoft initially announced that applications using OpenDoc would be deemed compatible with OLE, and would receive certification for Windows 95. Microsoft later reversed the decision and said that applications using OpenDoc might not receive certification at all. Microsoft withheld specifications and debugged versions of OLE until after it had released its competing applications.