Drupal in my opinion is as powerful as Wordpress and even more powerful. However for someone migrating from wordpress to Drupal may not know of all the modules or add-ons to install. This is an attempt to address that audience. For any blog I believe the following modules are good to start with.

Let me tell you how you can install Drupal on your home desktop for development using XAMPP. This is one of the easiest methods to get started.

When it comes to Drupal what are those Hot 10 things that are normally searched and interest people the most ?

Anyone who has liked the drupal videos on this website and on youtube must also consider Buying Video Tutorials

Here is the list of top 50 drupal modules by average monthly downloads. This data is as of 2009. With Drupal's popularity increasing the download data may vary. But the top downloaded modules are not likely to change much.

Here are some Free Drupal tutorials available on the web. This will be very helpful for beginners and for those who want to migrate from other CMS like Joomla to Drupal.

The forum module of drupal is very basic and when compared
to other forums softwares like vbulletin or simple machines it lacks features
& functionality .

Question is why would you use drupal forums.? I would say
that if you want a basic mechanism for discussion and don't anticipate a huge
group of users, then you can go with inbuild forum module as it fast and easy
to maintain.

Drupal does not have any special web hosting requirements. You can host a drupal site with any PHP / MySQL web hosting provider.   However there are some web hosts which provide some excellent support and features for Drupal sites. Most drupal hosting companies will provide you with Auto Installation or Free drupal installation.

When I started with Drupal sometime back there was no videp help or support.