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On a fresh Windows 7 computer i installed Office 2010 Home & Business. When i try to edit documents in SharePoint, i get this error message:

'Edit Document' requires a Windows SharePoint Services-compatible application"

Or if i click on document, it offers me to download the file.

I can't believe that office 2010 isn't compatible with SharePoint 2007. Is it so?

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Which browser are you using? I have office 2010 and we use a prod WSS 3.0 server at work and we have never had such an issue unless the person is not using IE.

Edit: this is a 64 bit browser issue. All editions of IE 64 bit have only limited support.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263526.aspx

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Ahh, using Internet Explorer 9 64-bit and the site is in Local Intranet zone with default settings. – Janis Veinbergs Mar 14 '12 at 14:27
Uh, oh, it's not that Office 2010 doesn't support SharePoint 2007. On other Windows 7 32bit machine i tried editing a document with Office 2010 Starter and it works! Even the Content Controls work! I didn't even expect that a Starter edition would support SharePoint at all. – Janis Veinbergs Mar 14 '12 at 14:58
Wow, please document that a little more fully as an answer. Just to be clear - are you saying Starter Edition is the issue? – Robert Kaucher Mar 14 '12 at 15:13
no, the Starter edittion works on Windows 7 32 bit but the Home & Business on Windows 7 64 bit doesn't (They are on different PC's). So i guess the issue is with my office installation or perhaps that i'm using Windows 7 64-bit? I don't know, i will still have to look into this issue before documenting it as an answer. – Janis Veinbergs Mar 15 '12 at 6:38
64 bit browser has only limited support. I have verified that I get the same error in my environment. – Robert Kaucher May 17 '12 at 1:59
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