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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/)
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Microsoft Office and Open Office can be bloated at times. This is a simple, stable, and effective Word Processor replacement. :)
Looks interesting.
Is it as powerful as Open Office as far as options from a user's perspective are concerned?
Izagaia
03-26-2004, 07:54 PM
There is not any detail about Microsoft Office in general that isn't bloated, IMO. <_<
Thanks, Shn! Very nice. :D
Actually Abi word has been around for a long time. ;)
M$ Office and Openoffice are bloated.
M$ 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$ 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.
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