AbiWord for Windows 2.6.3

Publisher's Description:

AbiWord is a free word processing program similar to Microsoft Word. It is suitable for typing papers, letters, reports, memos, etc. It is designed to integrate perfectly with the operating system it runs on. It will take advantage of the functionality provided by the system, such as image loading or printing capabilities.

AbiWord has the following other editions available: AbiWord for Mac OS X and AbiWord for Linux.

Latest Changes:

• Re-enable the equation editor on Windows systems
• Don't crash when saving to a device with no space left
• Prevent quite a few hard to trigger crashes from happening
• Inform the user when the connection is lost while collaborating on a document over the TCP transport

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Latest User Reviews:

Reviewer:	tscar13	Apr 7, 2008
Version:	2.6.2
not bad but not quite up to speed but making progress. good job.
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Reviewer:	pjafrombbay	Apr 1, 2008
Version:	2.6.0
The concept is good and two stars for being Open Source but for me -- I choose to pay the shareware fee and use Atlantis word processor. Its all the things AbiWord should be (or perhaps most of the things, given its not free). Regards, Peter
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Reviewer:	yokozuna	Aug 20, 2007
Version:	2.5.2 Beta
zridling, same here. I have to say that I am very disappointed that AbiWord has not support ODT natively yet (and the plugin is very flawed), however, I can find in the newest changelog: "the addition of a new experimental OpenXML import filter".
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Reviewer:	zridling	Feb 25, 2007
Version:	2.5.1
Still very slow, even on a Core 2 Duo machine and since AbiWord is Open Source, does it have any intention of being able to use ODF files? .doc format conversion is still hit-and-miss. AbiWord looks good, but its real-world performance doesn't live up to its UI's simple beauty.
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Reviewer:	Giacomo®	Feb 7, 2007
Version:	2.5.1
Just to say that their site says: "Our latest development release is version 2.5.1. Development releases are aimed at developers, or people willing to test unstable software". At this point I don't really know if 2.5.1 is final (and the home page is not updated) or develompmental (and thus FileForum is incorrect)
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