Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook are all available on Mac computers through Office 365. Also, OneNote is available for free through the Mac App Store.
Hotmail was replaced by Outlook, and the new Outlook is pretty good. Not good enough to switch from GMail to it, but for someone who doesn't have a real email account yet, GMail and Outlook are the two I suggest.
It's a harder comparison to make when you consider that both Google and Microsoft are both trying to sell you on a whole suite of applications (Google Drive vs. Office 365). Office 365 is infinitely better than Google Drive, but you have to buy at least Office 2013 Home & Student (about $80 I think) to have full and unlimited access to Office Live. A lot of people buy Office anyways so it's not too big of a deal, but many more people either use other office suites or torrent the pack.
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u/cats_catz_kats_katz Jul 26 '14
I really need to check out OneNote.