A Microsoft Sharepoint Foundation Compatible Application

My user attempted two things and now his problem is resolved. Don't know if it was a combination of both or just the second action.

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When opening a Microsoft Office document in the local client from an Office Web Application, such as the Microsoft Office Word Web App the document does not open. You receive an error message that resembles the following:
Microsoft <Office Application> Web App
To open this document (or presentation or spreadsheet), your computer must be running a version of Microsoft <Office Application> and a browser that supports opening files directly from the Office Web Apps.

A Microsoft Sharepoint Foundation Compatible Application

1. Performed steps outlined in this KB Article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/833714
2. Then had user enable Add Ons in Internet Explorer

Go to Tools in IE
Click on Internet Options
Click on Programs at the top
Click on “Manage add-ons” near the bottom
Click on Publisher, so you can see all of Microsoft Corporation together
Scroll to SharePoint names (May be one or several)
Make sure they are all enabled by clicking on the name; the Enable button is towards the bottom.
Then click OK and OK and restart IE

What if issue is not resolved yet?!!
try this, this will defiantly solve the issue. (Client machine Restart Requires)

Windows Vista/Windows 7 Solution:

Go to Control Panel, Programs, Uninstall a Program.
For each Office program that is not an Office 2010 program, select the item and click Change, Choose Add or Remove Features, Click Continue.
In Installation Options, expand Office Tools, Click Windows SharePoint Service Support, Choose Not Available, Click Continue. You must do this for all Office family programs that are not Office 2010 including earlier versions of Office Project or Visio.
Once configuration is complete, in Programs, click Office 2010, click Change, Choose Repair, Click Continue. (Note: A reboot will be required after the Repair completes)
If this is not working.. try removing all the office applications other than office 2010. i.e,. office 2003 word, office 2007 excel etc.

Windows XP Solution: (Very few client machine)

Go to Control Panel, Add Remove Programs
For each Office program that is not an Office 2010 program, select the item and click Change, Choose Add or Remove Features, Click Continue.
In Installation Options, expand Office Tools, Click Windows SharePoint Service Support, Choose Not Available, Click Continue. You must do this for all Office fanuky programs that are not Office 2010 including earlier versions of Office Project or Visio.
Once configuration is complete, In Add Remove Programs, click Office 2010, click Change, Choose Repair, Click Continue. (Note: A reboot will be required after the Repair completes)

Hope this helps.. thanks.-->

This article was written by Warren Rath, Support Escalation Engineer.

Symptoms

Assume that you have the Click-to-Run version of Office 365 and Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) 5 Service Pack 2 (SP2) installed on the same computer. When you try to open documents from SharePoint by using Office applications, you receive the following error message:

Edit Document requires a Microsoft SharePoint Foundation compatible application and web browser.

Cause

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To work around this issue, remove the iexplore.exe process from the ProcessesUsingVirtualComponents registry key in the following location:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftAppVClientVirtualization

There are side effects for this workaround, as follows:

A Microsoft Sharepoint Foundation Compatible Application Could Not Be Found

The registry key that toggles this on or off is EnableDynamicVirtualization. In addition, those processes that are specified for this feature are listed in the ProcessesUsingVirtualComponents registry key that's located in the same key. By default, Explorer.exe and Internet Explorer are listed there.

Dynamic Virtualization has a limited scope of interaction designed for features that are introduced in App-V SP 2.

This leads to an important statement: Just because the application is hooked, it doesn't always mean that it's running virtualized if it's displayed as a process under the ProcessesUsingVirtualComponents registry key. This will be done at the thread level. When an ActiveX OCX or a DLL that implements a shell extension is loaded from a native process or a process from another virtual application, App-V generates an additional virtual environment on demand linking the package that contains the OCX or DLL with the process. Then dynamic virtualization is turned on for that particular thread. As soon as the thread exits, dynamic virtualization is turned off. If the said thread with dynamic virtualization spawns another thread, that thread will also be virtualized.

Note

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When you turn off the Dynamic Virtualization and remove the executable paths from the previous configuration, you will lose the functionality described above.

A Microsoft Sharepoint Foundation Compatible Application Cannot Be Found

More information

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If you need App-V to function inside Internet Explorer, say for your own custom Internet Explorer add-ins that require App-V, contact Microsoft Technical Support and get help from the Office support team.