Abiword

[shn]

AbiWord is a free word processing program similar to Microsoft® Word. It is suitable for typing papers, letters, reports, memos, and so forth.

Homepage (http://www.abisource.com/)
Download (http://www.abisource.com/download/)
screenshots (http://www.abisource.com/screenshots/)

Microsoft Office and Open Office can be bloated at times. This is a simple, stable, and effective Word Processor replacement. :)

[I.am]

Looks interesting.

Is it as powerful as Open Office as far as options from a user's perspective are concerned?

[Izagaia]

There is not any detail about Microsoft Office in general that isn&#39;t bloated, IMO. <_<

Thanks, Shn&#33; Very nice. :D

[shn]

Actually Abi word has been around for a long time. ;)

M&#036; Office and Openoffice are bloated.

M&#036; office has miscellaneous office services start up on boot. For the most part they are to keep the startup times to a minimum for people that use office apps frequently.

Openoffice has a quickstarter to reduce startup times as well.

A prime example of bloated.................Mozilla has a quickstarter to decrease startup times. Firefox does not. Because firefox is faster, and thus, not bloated.

Not everyone needs a full office suite just to write a simple document. Abiword is much more powerful than MS word, Openoffice Writer, and wordpad. In order for M&#036; word or Openoffice writer to be any better it would have to rely on other components in the office suite itself, which Abiword already has built into one application not a suite.