Its official, it has been a month since I stopped using Microsoft Office on my laptop! I can in all good conscience say that I don't miss anything but Outlook. ThinkFree has handled all of my word processing, spreadsheet and presentation needs without any hitches that I didn't or wouldn't have experienced in Office.
I still use Office 2007 at work and I really prefer the ribbon toolbar to the text/button toolbar in ThinkFree. But to put Office 2007 Home/Student (which doesn't include Outlook) on my Laptop would cost more than double for what I paid for ThinkFree. I would lose the autosynch function that I now really, really use all the time. I have had no issues or problems opening anything from work or from others that I have tried. The only two I had issues with MS Word 2007 didn't open either, so it has been very dependable.
So while I don't really miss Office at all on my laptop, except for Outlook and I think I will go back to using Thunderbird/Google for calendar/contacts/task management, I am just not happy with the M/S Live and Windows Calendar workaround that I have to use right now. Maybe when Live is finished putting out all their new stuff I will go back to using that?
Am I against Microsoft - no. I actually like most of their products, but sometimes they are simply too big or too powerful for what I need them to do and something like ThinkFree does everything I need for working at home. If I need the extra features, I can wait until I get to work to use them. .
Overall, I am glad that I made the switch from Office to ThinkFree. 
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I just got a new laptop and am debating do I want to mess with Office or use Open Office. How does Think Free compare to Open Office?
Kim - I had open office on this laptop and it works fine, it is a very powerful, free wordprocessor. It has buttons similar to Offbice 2003. ut I wanted the ability to synch with the cloud since I carry it around a lot, but want to be able to access my applications when the cloud isn't available.
ThinkFree is a desktop and cloud application that synchs automatically. About the only thing I can't do that I miss is track changes and actually I can live without that function.
Open office has an upload add-on but when it uploads to Zoho or Google docs it creates a new document instead of replacing or synching with one that already exists. So you have to manually go back and delete a previous version and loose any prior changes.
So I am happy with ThinkFree and it isn't that expensive. I do like the auto synch and that is what sold me on it.
If you have anymore questions will try to answer them.
Harold