Number of Rows and Columns Excel 2007 is Reduced

A friend asked why the number of rows and columns in Excel 2007 it reduced the amount of 1,048,576 rows and 16,384 columns to be like in Excel 2003, 65,536 rows and 256 columns.Indeed, the very significant changes between Excel 2007 with its predecessor is the number of rows and columns of a possible maximum. But to establish compatibility with earlier versions of Excel, in Excel 2007 called the