Microsoft has been helping Adobe develop a sandbox similar to the Protected View in Office 2010. Adobe Reader Protected Mode, a sandboxing technology based on Microsoft's Practical Windows ...

Find out how you can disable Protected View & remove Read-only in Microsoft Office programs like Excel, Word, PowerPoint, etc, via the Trust Center.

Microsoft Office 2010 includes a new "Protected View" that, by default, will open all Outlook attachments and documents downloaded from the Internet in "read-only" mode.