I live in the states...

Do a Google search for Ubuntu and you should find all kinds of information

For MS Office you would use Open Office instead

For IE you would want to use Opera or Firefox

Outlook and Outlook Express would become Evolution or Thunderbird.

Of course there are other equivalent programs out there for browsers and
email programs but Open Office is the better one for MS Office replacement.

Do some searching on Google and you should find alot of information on
Ubuntu.