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.

We aim at robust inter-operability with existing products, such as Microsoft Word Ò, Corel's WordPerfect Ò, and others. Our goal is to incorporate the most useful features of these competing applications without the fluff, bloat, or slowness that accompany them. The result is a lean and mean Word Processor, the download size being less than 4 megabytes.

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

At this point in our development we have not implemented tables, however this is the first priority for the next development phase. We have already made impressive progress towards this and other new features.

AbiWord is available for Linux and other Unix variants, Windows, Mac OSX and QNX and is completely free. You can learn more about AbiWord from our website at http://www.abiword.com/.

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

AbiWord can be extended via plugins which can be downloaded from: http://www.abiword.com/plugins.phtml

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