How to Open an XPS Document in Windows 8. The Microsoft XPS Document Writer saves your archived documents, Web pages and shared content as XPS files. Windows 8 includes an XPS Viewer that opens ...

The files are created by Microsoft XPS Document Writer, but can be opened by Microsoft XPS Viewer. You may access the Viewer directly, or open it through the file.

The XPS viewer application (the XPS counterpart to Adobe Acrobat Reader) is included in Windows, starting with Vista. It renders XPS documents in an Internet Explorer window that contains ...