For Immediate Release

The AbiWord team is proud to announce the release of AbiWord version 1.0. 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.