Whether you love or hate Microsoft, the way we create documents will change in the future. Google is working to enhance their position in the document creation space by acquiring some related companies.
I have used Google Docs and for simple word processing, it is fine. For the power users, maybe not. Read more about Google and their recent business moves.
Nothing would please me more than using a reasonably prices (or FREE!) product. If you have not looked at what Google is doing in the collaboration arena, you should check it out. They are working on projects for users to create documents real-time online. In the future, you will work on documents with your co-workers (fellow creators etc) with full Instant Messaging or other communication methods at the same time as you modify a document.
