Chrome learns to open Office docs with help from a 25MB extension

Google’s got some (relatively) exciting news to share with you about Chrome! If you’re running the browser’s Beta channel, you’re now able to view Microsoft Office documents right inside Chrome. Sort of, anyway. Chrome can’t pull off this magic trick on its own just yet. The actual document-previewing hocus-pocus is performed by a 25-megabyte extension called, logically enough, the Chrome Office Viewer. Just like the browser you need to be running to use it, the extension itself is currently beta.   Read the full article from Geek.com at this link.