just to further add, this is why most documents you can download off of the Web are PDF-based (not M$ Word and such)... b/c that way anybody can read it, regardless of what kind of computert hey have... Windows PC, Mac, Smartphone, Palm Pilot... TI...
As a footnote, that's why the company Adobe has such a great foothold in the computer market, they realized early that it was better just give away the s/w to READ the files to everybody for free... so as a result, everybody used it... they became the de-facto standard... putting them in a great position to charge for other programs or for the s/w to CREATE the docs (e.g. Acrobat Pro).
(in short : Adobe = Smart, Microsoft (charge for everything) = successful only by brute force)
