Use OpenOffice.org

TEACHERS: If you have students that do not have microsoft office at home but want to do work at home and access it on school computers.

It is a free program that is very similar to Microsoft Office but it is free. In fact it does many things better than Microsoft Office (like being able to save directly as a .pdf file)

Try a new Browser. You will like it. It even has a feed reader, and it looks cooler than your old Internet Explorer.
Software for reading PDF files.