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More Than 250,000 People Now Use ThinkFree Online Service

Online office suite pioneer expands community collaboration with upgrades to its Doc Exchange library

SAN JOSE, Calif., Feb. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- ThinkFree, Inc., developer of the first online office productivity suite, today announced that it has surpassed 250,000 registered users within its ThinkFree Online community (http://www.thinkfree.com/).

People who have selected ThinkFree as their favorite online office suite include small and medium business owners and their staffs, university professors, teachers, entrepreneurs, parents, bloggers and students. On any given month, this community:

-- Accounts for 228,000 unique page views -- Stores over 654,000 files totaling 189 GB of data -- Accounts for just under 100,000 unique visitors, of which over half stay longer than 10 minutes and roughly one quarter return day after day -- Shares 2,000 documents -- Uploads or creates 60,000-80,000 new files

The ThinkFree community is globally diverse, with users from more than 200 countries, including Mauritania, Anguilla, and Saint Kitts and Nevis. The greatest number of users come from five regions: the United States, South Korea, Brazil, the United Kingdom and Canada.

ThinkFree has plans to upgrade its Doc Exchange, a library of files published by ThinkFree Online members. Many of these improvements were developed in response to feedback received from ThinkFree users.

"The feedback from our online community has been key to making the collaborative benefits of ThinkFree Online easier to use and more accessible for experienced and new users," said TJ Kang, CEO and founder of ThinkFree. "The growth of our online community further validates the appeal of Web-based productivity applications as an alternative to traditional desktop solutions."

As a result of its commitment to constantly improve its service based on user feedback, ThinkFree will be making upgrades to Doc Exchange, which hosts over 13,900 documents -- Everything from business plans to recipes and soccer league schedules. Specifically, the new Doc Exchange will be geared to making the public library more user-friendly, faster and easier for users to find the exact information they need. In addition, ThinkFree will be adding tools to foster interaction between users and to help them find interesting new documents.

ThinkFree Online is the only complete Internet-based office productivity suite to blend the best of the Internet's collaboration features with comprehensive Microsoft Office compatibility. ThinkFree Online includes three applications - ThinkFree Write for word processing, ThinkFree Calc for spreadsheet management and ThinkFree Show for creating presentations - that are intuitive to learn and use. ThinkFree continues to lead the evolution of Web 2.0 online suite development by providing easy integration of ThinkFree's

market-leading tools for online creation, collaboration and editing of Microsoft Office-format documents.

About ThinkFree

ThinkFree, Inc., headquartered in San Jose, Calif., is a leading developer of platform-independent office productivity solutions. A division of Haansoft Inc., a publicly held company on the Korean KOSDAQ stock market, ThinkFree's mission is to offer market-leading software solutions that leverage the power of the Internet and provide users with a consistent, unified and productive experience regardless of computing platform. For more information, please contact ThinkFree at +1 (408) 432-5074, or go to http://www.thinkfree.com/.

NOTE: ThinkFree and ThinkFree Online are registered trademarks. All other trademarks and/or registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

Contact: Carlos Mangandy of The Hoffman Agency, +1-408-975-3004, or cmangandy@hoffman.com; or Jonathan Crow of ThinkFree, Inc., +1-408-432-5068, or jcrow@thinkfree.com.

ThinkFree, Inc.

CONTACT: Carlos Mangandy of The Hoffman Agency, +1-408-975-3004, or
cmangandy@hoffman.com; or Jonathan Crow of ThinkFree, Inc., +1-408-432-5068,
or jcrow@thinkfree.com

Web site: http://www.thinkfree.com/

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