Copy and Paste China style: WPS Office, local substitute for Microsoft Office in China, accessed by more than 100 million devices in country every day
WPS Office which is being developed by Kingsoft Office Software has actually reached over 100 million daily active users, reported South China Morning Post.
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According to South China Morning Post, this desktop application is marketed as something which is ‘highly compatible’ with Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint while making it an extremely attractive choice for users in the country China specifically amidst rising cybersecurity concerns and geopolitical tensions with the US.
WPS Office has gained significant traction in critical sectors which actually include government, finance and telecommunications as well, asserted South China Morning Post. Its growing popularity has actually been highlighted when a Microsoft Windows outage took place in the month of July of the year 2024 causing severe disruptions in many regions while key infrastructure operators in mainland China remained largely unaffected.
Launched in the year 1988, WPS was the very first Chinese language word processing system and has then since evolved into a pretty comprehensive office suite that includes tools for word processing, spreadsheets and presentations, noted South China Morning Post.
In spite of its success, WPS Office has actually faced severe criticism for allegedly censoring private documents. At the same time, in
