How to open Micrsoft's so-called Open XML Format

[charlie derr]

Anthony M Simonelli wrote:
> Just got an email today at work with an attached spreadsheet in 
> Microsoft Office Open XML Format Spreadsheet format.  I guess it's a 
> combination of XML and ZIP technology that they are pushing to make an 
> ISO standard document, claiming is is an "open" standard. 
> 
> I'm running Ubuntu at work and I believe Microsoft Office 2007 is the 
> only application that view these documents.  Is there a way to view it 
> with OpenOffice.org?
> 


Whether or not anyone gives you a hint on how to do this, it might be worth also stopping by http://www.noooxml.org/petition and 
signing to help to hopefully somewhat ameliorate the proliferation of such chaos.

	~c