WPS Office

WPS Office is the office suite allowing to browse, create and edit documents in the DOC, DOCX, TXT, XLS, XLSX, PPT, PPTX formats. His developer is the Chinese company Kingsoft Office Software positioning him as "an alternative of Microsoft Office No. 1".

According to the company, as of 2015 WPS Office totals about 1.1 billion registered users worldwide, about a half of whom is the share of versions for the PC and as much – on mobile devices where with a big separation devices on Android OS are in the lead.

WPS Office for the PC on Windows OS including only basic functionality is distributed for free, and versions in enhanced capabilities – for a fee. The company notes that the cost of its program is about 3 times lower, than the cost of Microsoft Office. Mobile version of WPS Office is available exclusively free of charge.

According to the vice president for sales of Kingsoft Office Software Rene Buhay, the situation when in one company use both WPS Office in paid and free versions, and Microsoft Office is frequent.

In process of development of the international business of Kingsoft Office Software its office suite became available in the increasing number of languages. Mobile version of WPS Office is available to a status for fall of 2015 in 48 languages, including Russian, data brought TAdviser into the companies.