Tony and UX Movement is chock full of bad advice, doesn't do proper research and can't take criticism at all. I would avoid it at all costs. Feel free to read his "article" "The Aesthetic-Accessibility Paradox" and "Why radio buttons and checkboxes can't coexist" and read the comments to those and see what I mean.
it is a zip with collection of xml files. Diff on as-is xml from word doesn't work, there are a lot of false positives. Things looks the same from a user perspective, but internally it is different. You would have to interpret/render the content to really tell if it is different.
There is also plain tracking noise of word itself.
However, diff on word xml is perfect tool to understand how the microsoft interprets the spec.
once you mentioned it, the original commands which are compared are not equivalent. Dir does case insensitive search, find is case sensitive. The equivalent would be: