.PDF coming in as Winmail.DAT

Anyone know why all of a sudden friends sending me PDF's get converted to WINMAIL.DAT.  I can't open them, what can I check?

Mac OS X Mail: What is a winmail.dat attachment?
The attachment means the email was sent from a Microsoft email application (such as Outlook and the Microsoft Exchange Client) and includes rich text information--how fonts, colors and specialized attributes such as underlining or boldface should appear in the email (the attachment doesn't appear in Outlook but does appear in Mail; it may appear in other email applications as a MIME section named "application/ms-tnef")
Avoiding these attachments
To avoid seeing these attachments in the future, you ask the sender to deselect the email's "Send to this recipient in Microsoft rich text format" checkbox or preference setting in mail client before they send the message.
Additional Information
For more information please see this Microsoft support document.
This app may be useful to you: Winmail File Viewer

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    iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch does not display attachment in email
    http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1506
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    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278061
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    Bvjed et al.
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    Since I upgraded to Office 2007 at work, any email received from there that has an attachment is named winmail.dat and will not open. Upgrading my work PC is NOT an option, but I'd like my Mac to be able to recognise the attachment for what it is, either a pdf, or a xls or doc file etc.
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