AbiWord is a free word processing program similar to Microsoft Word. It is suitable for a wide variety of word processing tasks.

Changelog:

• The addition of a new experimental OpenXML import filter
• A Windows port of the experimental AbiWord Collaboration plugin
• Improved start-up time on Windows systems
• Support for native Windows Vista menus
• Allow dragging and dropping images in and out of AbiWord (Unix)
• Quite a few improvements to the OpenDocument filter
• Improved RTF import filter (it handles fields now for example)
• Improved LaTeX equation input support
• Fast image previews in the Image dialog, even for huge images (Unix)

Program Information Category: Tools and Utilities Type: Free Version: 2.5.2 beta Size: 5.9MB Works on: Windows Product page: here