Opening .docx files on your Mac

docx2doc allows you to convert Word 2007 files in a simple and fast 1-2-3 process. Upload, choose target format (including doc, html, rtf and txt) and have your docs ready in 30 seconds!

today Panergy-software released docXConverter for MAC OS X, which convert docx to rtf. the quality of conversion is awesome, take a look at the screenshots.

you can download the trial for docXConverter from here:
http://www.panergy-software.com/buy/download.html
but the demo is good only for 20 conversions after that you have to buy it.

Just released is "Docx Converter", to which you upload your .docx file and it converts it for you to .txt. The formatting disappears, but the text remains.

Oops.
Here.
http://openxmldeveloper.org/articles/OpenXMLsamples.aspx

Sample files to play with available here.

A similar 'hack' can be used by Windows (Linux, *nix) users who stumble across a .Pages file which is also XML.

While I'm complaining... what's with this lame-commenting system. I posted 2 comments in a row; I replied to the first, then go back to write another comment, then replied to that and I see that it posted the first comment twice. Then I had to go back and retype the last comment only upon going to my e-mail account I see that by this time I had 3 messages total at this point. After typing this and also the second message a second time, I had 5 responses from your server total just to get those original 2 comments out of my head and onto the net.

Uggg. This is proving as difficult to work with as Microsoft is.

And what is with this stupid crap they are trying to pull by releasing a plug-in for browsers called "Windows Presentation Foundation Everywhere" (WPF/E).

They are losing the browser war again so now they have to beef up their efforts?!?!

What the heck does "rich content in addition to HTML" mean? Nothing!

Somebody want $10... tell me how this will benefit anyone.

How can Microsoft call it an open XML format? Christe!

I ask this question in complete disgust knowing full-well that this is the Microsoft way; they see a standard... that infiltrate it and destroy that which makes the standard so great.

I can't wait for Apple to release something even halfway resembling Excel. Ram it down Microsoft's throat.

How can Microsoft call it an open XML format? Christe!

I ask this question in complete disgust knowing full-well that this is the Microsoft way; they see a standard... that infiltrate it and destroy that which makes the standard so great.

I can't wait for Apple to release something even halfway resembling Excel. Ram it down Microsoft's throat.