Yes, on Windows this technology is called OLE (Object Linking and Embedding). It allows embedding (parts) of other applications' documents in a document. Nowadays only a few programs besides the MS Office suite provide OLE capability.
For example, you can embed a complete Word document inside an Excel cell by clicking: Insert -> Object -> Microsoft Word Document. By double clicking this object, the Word UI opens up inside Excel.
Yes, on Windows this technology is called OLE (Object Linking and Embedding). It allows embedding (parts) of other applications' documents in a document. Nowadays only a few programs besides the MS Office suite provide OLE capability.
For example, you can embed a complete Word document inside an Excel cell by clicking: Insert -> Object -> Microsoft Word Document. By double clicking this object, the Word UI opens up inside Excel.