AbiWord
by Martin Neumann ~ March 29th, 2007
AbiWord is a free word processing program similar to Microsoft® Word. It is suitable for a wide variety of word processing tasks.
AbiWord is a free word processor that rivals Microsoft’s Word. The beauty of AbiWord is that one of there core ideals is to make the program run on any operating system.
AbiWord is a lean app, which loads in seconds. It imports MS Word files - obviously a big plus.
Primarily focused on the Linux scene, AbiWord has jumped on board the Windows platform - check out some of the screenshots to give you an idea of what you will be faced with.
Personally, I still use MS Word but am slowly moving to OpenOffice more and more. Many people do tell me that AbiWord loads much faster that OpenOffice - which surprises me because OpenOffice seems to have a much larger and active community behind it.
Anyway, give AbiWord a try - it may be just what you’re looking for.
February 7th, 2008 at 3:26 pm
Anything that competes with Microsoft I am on board for.