Open external browser from within Acrobat via API?

My plugin can get the desired path/address, but I can't seem to figure out how to kick off the browser through the API.
End goal is opening non-Acrobat file types (.xls, .doc) through an external browser.
Is this possible?
Using Acrobat SDK 7 and Visual Studio 2005.

> "first embedded as dataObjects"... This sounds like it would not be reader-compatible, and that's another end-goal.
It is if you have a LiveCycle Reader Extensions Server to extend the PDF.
> But http:// links would work?
Yes.
> How do I launch a browser?
Look up the app.launchURL method in the JS API Reference.

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