[Bush2000]

For the technically savvy and adept, of course you are right. But that accounts for .0001% of the general populace.

I dunno. Netscape claims to have had about 200 million downloads of their software. There are certainly a lot of idiots out there but, if Netscape can manage that many downloads, I'd say most users can handle Word Viewer.

[NativeNewYorker]

Does word viewer allow editing, saving, and sending?