Office is a big thing to an OS, and since Gobe is not there anymore, and yellowTab never give a long shot to the OpenOffice port project, they were not that much left around for us.
That was not counting on AbiWord, available in v1.0 for BeOS ! And as you already seen here and there, this word processing software is still alive for our beloved growing OS. Here is what Anton Sokolov, th developper behind this project emailed me:

First of all, it's not new release, it's firs aplha pre-release.
As you can see on dev.osdrawer.net the project status is Alpha, if that is what you mean. I plan release beta in semptember-october 07. The AbiWord is now not usable for ordinary user - it's first and main task to make it usable and stable.
Really, i don't need tester at this moment. I know many and many bugs that are now exist in BeOS-port of Abi.
Yes i have some scrrenshots, but it's not a real good time for screenshots, it's time for code.
As 2 years ago i'm working alone on Abi. It's very big project for me.

What help i need at now:
1. Screenshots (from another OSes) of Abi dialog that are now missing from BeOS port.
2. Reports about features than now missing from BeOS port (and exist in another OSes).

Sorry about my english.

p.s. BeOS users really know what means word "waiting" :))

Sure we know that !!! But with all this Haiku activities (CDFS, BFS browsing under Windows, FreeBSD network drivers, OpenSoundSystem port, USB, ...) we are all so excited that we just all dream of this day we could use Haiku for home daily use, like we do with R5 (or Zeta for some of the community). Now you all get the message, Anton needs your help on screenshots and features reports ! Feel free to drop him thanks, congratulations and reports on abiword at nm.ru.