Agree about Gmail. OpenOffice http://download.openoffice.org/ is great FOSS alternative for MS Office. You can open, edit & save .doc documents without any problem and interface is almost identical. Only thing notable iss "Page Setup" is under "Format" instead of "File". I switched without missing a beat.
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