Good news cheap people! Windows 7′s WordPad (Microsoft’s cheap bundled word processing doc) now supports Office 2007/2008′s XML-based Word docs.
The upside is that if you’re just typing up really simple things, you don’t need to actually buy (or pirate) a copy of Office. The downside is that WordPad only has limited support for these types of docs, and will present you with a warning that it’ll strip out some extra content only supported in Word if you re-save. So don’t overwrite your co-worker’s meticulously prepared presentation with your notes on how she should “spice up those sales figures with more caliente language.”
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