Microsoft document downloads

Why it it every time you want to read a document from Microsoft, they wrap it up into an EXE file? I’ve read somewhere that this is so they can digitally sign the exe to prevent content spoofing. I guess that is an indication of how little trust they put in digital signatures attached to Word documents.

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