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

[George Farris]

On Wed, 2007-27-06 at 20:46 -0500, 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?

I recommend returning it back to the sender and mentioning ODF or PDF as
a standard.  Let them know that openxml is not an acceptable format.