Way to view MS Office's new file format

[NoOp]

On 07/22/2008 01:50 PM, debiani386 at gmail.com wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 12:52 -0700, NoOp wrote:
>> On 07/22/2008 10:35 AM, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote:
>> > Linda Hanigan wrote:
>> >> Is there an open source way to view MS Office's new file format? We
>> >> are starting to get more of these annoying files as email 
>> >> attachments.
>> > 
>> > This might help.
>> > 
>> > http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
>> > 
>> > Peter HB
>> > 
>> 
>> Not likely:
>> <quote>
>> You sent the attachment in Microsoft Word format, a secret proprietary
>> format, so I cannot read it. If you send me the plain text, HTML, or
>> PDF, then I could read it.
>> </quote>
>> 
>> HTML is turned off on _all_ of my email clients.
>> 
> then dont send it in html. Most people that i know of typically have
> HTML turned of in their email viewers. IMHO thats why its best to send
> it in text or something like that when sending attachments. 
> 
> besides the latest version of oo can read 2k7 documents. Idk how well it
> can do it, but it can
> 
> --cj
>> 
> 
> 

I think you missed the point; the point is that I don't HTML in email
period. I also don't encourage others to HTML in email. You did read the
link?