Playing windows based cd-roms on my mac

I just bought a new camera and I put the cd-rom into my new macbook pro and the files come up, but nothing happens. How do I get the windows based cd-com to open on my mac? do i need to buy windows xp? I already have microsoft office 2008 for mac installed. help!

Having Office installed has nothing to do with being able to open windows applications.
Chance are you don't even need the camera software as Apples own apps...iPhoto and Image Capture...will work with the camera

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