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Joel quoted himself writing:

"Most of the time, what happens is that they give their program to a journalist to review, and the journalist reviews it by writing their review using the new word processor, and then the journalist tries to find the �word count� feature which they need because most journalists have precise word count requirements, and it's not there, because it�s in the �80% that nobody uses,� and the journalist ends up writing a story that attempts to claim simultaneously that lite programs are good, bloat is bad, and I can�t use this damn thing �cause it won't count my words."

This is why I like small tools, and being a user that can use them. Armed with the power of the unix command: wc

I can find out the number of words from ANY tool that I use. Now they do not have to have the burden of that being a killer feature (but rather a nice to have).

I really do think that there is a middle ground between Microsoft Word and Microsoft Notepad, and that users would use that middle ground.

Maybe it is Google Docs. Being able to share and version the thing makes it worth a lot to me, and I am one of the users that doesn't use 90% of the features.