http://www.japantoday.com/e/?content...at=4&id=349288
Kingsoft began with its pretigeous WPS (word processing system) in DOS era. It was installed on almost every PC in China before M$ office came out. Recently, it launched WPS office 2005 which is claimed capatiable with M$'s word, excel, powerpoint. It can also convert you document into PDF file by clicking button (professional version)
KingSoft's products covers office, anti-virus, games, and translation software.
KingSoft opened an office in Japan recently.
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Thursday, September 15, 2005 at 07:41 JST
TOKYO — China's major software company Kingsoft Corp on Wednesday started offering its popular anti-virus software for free on the Internet, becoming the first Chinese company to make a full-scale entry into the Japanese computer software market, its Japanese arm said.
The software that can be downloaded from the Internet is the Japanese version of the most popular anti-virus software in China, Kingsoft Japan Corp said. The first 1 million people to download the software get free use of it for one year, while everyone else who downloads it gets six months' free use, the company said. After the free period expires, the renewal fee will be 980 yen a year, the company said.
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http://www.eworksglobal.com/erp_127725244877812500.htm
Kingsoft Launches Word Power 2006
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Resource:ChinaTechNews
9-6-2005
Kingsoft has started distribution of its Kingsoft Word Power 2006 and Kingsoft Quick Translation 2006 software.
Different from the past versions, the new software has Chinese to Japanese translation abilities and an upgraded Chinese to English translation module.
Wang Quanguo, vice CEO of Kingsoft, told the local media that in addition to including the content of more than 150 dictionaries and over 70 professional word stocks, Kingsoft Word Power 2006 had also upgraded the American Traditional Dictionary in the software.
The software can be used on Windows, Linux, Mac OS, mobile phones and PDAs.
Kingsoft also made a surprising announcement. It will place its 64-bit Kingsoft Anti-virus Power 2005 software online for users to download for free.
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