For the last few decades, Microsoft Word has been the de-facto standard for word processors across the working world. That’s finally starting to shift, and it looks like Google is the heir apparent. The company’s Google Docs solution (or to be specific, the integrated word processor) is cross-platform, inter-operable, automatically syncs, it’s easily shareable, and perhaps best of all, it’s free.
http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/microsoft-word-versus-google-docs/