Internet Explorer wont open docx files, saves them as zip

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Published on 2012-10-03T09:28:03Z Indexed on 2012/10/03 9:40 UTC
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I have several docx documents on an Intranet for my work, but IE8 refuses to open them, instaed only saving them as a zip (filename_docx.zip). This seems to be only an IE8 problem (surprise, surprise!) as both FF and Chrome open the documents just fine. Unfortunately as this is work based, I cannot simply drop IE as I would, in favour of a decent browser.

Does anybody know how to fix this issue in IE? Thanks.

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