Microsoft's Office apps for Android, iOS include surprising ties to Windows API

Microsoft's Office apps for Android and iOS could be called "Windows-based," after some recent findings.

The Office apps for Android and iOS appear to have deep ties to the Windows API. A programmer going by the name of "Longhorn" and I recently took apart the Office applications for Android and iOS and inspected their code and content. This process is known as reverse-engineering. We found that they have a lot in common with the versions found on Windows 10 Mobile, and in some cases, with Windows 10, depending on the version you use.

Virtualised registry

Longhorn and I noticed that if you dig into the apps, you see that they offer almost identical Virtualized Registry Containers (VRC) as Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps. What are VRCs? They are essentially copies of a system registry which are sandboxed and secured so they don't have contact with the system itself, so they don't break anything.

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