LibreOffice is an alternative for MS Office. It has some drawbacks too and few instabilities but it getting better overtime. It works ok on both Windows and Linux. The import from MS Office is ok too, but I am not a power user and I really use the basic set of features.
For Email, I am not using any application now. Before, I was using Mozilla Thunderbird which I found ok, but it is lacking some features you have in MS Outlook, may be there is some improvement since.
I used to have Hotmail, it became windows live mail in 7, now it is a next to a useless outlook version with sync problems. I finally retrieved my folders by looking in deleted files. I am glad I have gmail as a backup. So happy to get reviews and advise because these coders are getting too malicious, forcing software that acts more like viruses on clients and old customers. I am hoping to get a good email server on word press, but it may not be a bad idea to get Mozilla Thunderbird also. Thank you so much for your advise.