Office 2010 doesn't integrate with WSS3?

Question

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?

Answer 1

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