[SARES] free microsoft office file viewers

Hello,

in light of roster and data now being published as Excel spreadsheets and
as discussed over lunch today, Microsoft offers you to download a free
viewer software to open Office software attachments for those of you
who do not want to buy a license for the Office applications itself. You
may download and install those viewers from...

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/results.aspx?freetext=viewer&displaylang=en

Note: some of those viewers are large files to download and consume large
amounts of diskspace to install; and then also considerable amounts of
CPU and memory to run. You might want to pass on this opportunity if
you are still running Win98SE on a Pentium-133 computer with 32MB of RAM.

The Micro$oft-free alternative is of course to install the OpenOffice
package, a full suite of office productivity software that opens almost
all of the Microsoft file formats. OpenOffice is open source software and
available at no cost at all. You have been warned: OpenOffice is even
larger to download (50...100 MB) and will also need a somewhat powerful 
PC with adequate memory to run on.

http://www.openoffice.org/

Enjoy, andreas  K6OTT
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