A guy in my class received an email with a docx file attached - "docx" is Microsoft's new xml format for Word files and is not backwards compatible, meaning if you try to open one in any version of Word but the latest you get nowhere. If you haven't encountered this problem you no doubt will soon. (A similar "x" identifies files from other applications in the new Office.)
Microsoft has an update for some older versions of Office - for others, not so much. And there are at least two web sites that offer conversions and/or conversion software: docx-converter and docx2doc.
I tested a copy of the document and it opens fine in Mac OS 10.5 (Leopard) in either TextEdit (my version is 1.5) or Pages ('08) with only a couple of very small, very easily corrected formatting glitches. (It was a very highly formatted document to begin with - manuscripts, letters, and the like should present no problem at all.) I don't have access to xlsx or pptx files at the moment but I'd venture a guess Numbers and Keynote, respectively, should behave the same way.
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