For Immediate Release

The AbiWord team is proud to announce the release of the free software Word Processing program, AbiWord version 1.0.1. More than three years in the making, AbiWord is a reliable, extensible, cross-platform, word-processor with many powerful features.

AbiWord aims at robust inter-operability with existing products, such as Microsoft Word Ò, Corel's WordPerfect Ò, and others. AbiWord's goal is to incorporate all of the good features from these competing applications without any of the unnecessary additions, bloat, or slowness that generally accompany them.

Translations and spell checking are available for more 30 different Languages. An English Language Thesaurus is available as a separate plugin.

AbiWord is available for Linux and other Unix variants, Windows, Mac OSX and QNX.

You can learn more about AbiWord from our website at http://www.abiword.com/.

AbiWord can be downloaded from http://www.abiword.com/download/.

The AbiWord team can be contacted via email at: abi@abisource.com.