AbiWord - new feature flagged for 2.6

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This text is excerpted from an OLPC forum. Current Abiword release in the wild is 2.5. AbiWord 2.6 will be something for Puppy users also to look forward to...or not, depending on your views about Google docs.

Hi Everyone,
I'm Martin Sevior, one of the core abiword (and OLPC-Write) developers. The Write activity on the OLPC is a fully fledged Word Processor based on AbiWord. You can do almost anything that OpenOffice can do with it.

Regarding the upload to "google apps" idea, we're working on a website that will give you all the functionality of google docs (remote storage and collaboration) based on the real-time collaboration feature of write. You will be able to access this via abiword-2.6 (due for release really, really soon).

If you really feel you must use OpenOffice, fear not, the default file format for write is ODF as far as we can tell, the ODF we export is imported into OpenOffice without errors. If you find bugs please report them to us and we'll fix them ASAP.