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What about using eDeskonline in China ? Are Chinese language links that important for success ? Sanjiv swarup ( talk) 05:20, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
I have never heard of Kingsoft ever, i tried their product and it looked like a rebrand of open office. They claim they're not open source that itself is clear indication of that. Also they claim no JRE, i know why they don't want JRE because it is needed for Database in Open office and Kingsoft has none. Being chinese my self i think companies like Kingsoft give a bad name and total disregard to IP of other people like most of our companies here in China —Preceding unsigned comment added by 110.159.157.201 ( talk) 09:44, 3 July 2010 (UTC)
I recently started seeing auto insurance ads popping up in the corner of my desktop (with no title bar or other chrome identifying the source). A little investigation with Process Explorer showed the popper was wpscenter.exe, a background agent which identifies itself as "WPS service program for service such as login and Cloud storage" (and service such as sneaky undisclosed ads, apparently). It should be noted that WPS wasn't running, hadn't been running recently or since the last reboot, and there was no icon for the agent in the systray to indicate it was running, either. The ad conveniently disappeared as WPS Office was being uninstalled - which, needless to say, happened almost immediately.
Of course, a brief search didn't turn up any hits other than a three-year long conversation on Kingsoft's forums and a user comment on file.net, which probably makes my experience fall solidly under "original research" (assuming a particularly loose and lazy definition of "research"), but I found it interesting that there was little mention of advertising, and no mention at all of this sort of shady behavior in the article. Maybe another editor will stumble on a better source. If not, maybe another editor will at least be saved from the dire plague of mysterious auto insurance ads. -- 71.234.116.22 ( talk) 06:19, 15 August 2019 (UTC)
It seems that a number of WP:SPAs are providing sources which are only marketing literature, rather than addressing WP:Notability TEDickey ( talk) 19:08, 22 October 2011 (UTC)
I don't know why the source was marked as dubious.
http://books.google.de/books?id=JS_Af8c_eK0C&lpg=PP1&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false
BTW I have no connections to KingSoft nor any conflict of interest in this subject. I am rather just a moderate inclusionist. -- Koifkoi ( talk) 17:14, 27 October 2011 (UTC)
Despite the initial success of Microsoft's strategy, it is not certain whether its efforts are sufficient to dominate the Chinese market. In 2003, the Chinese government made Kingsoft office software the standard for various government branches. The decision in favor of Kingsoft, who had held a market share of 90 percent in the office software market in the early 1990s, demonstrates the government's preference for local companies, in spite of large investment by foreign companies.
That is, the statement in its original context is not intended to be a compliment to Kingsoft (the reverse is apparent). It's a minor statement in a lengthy discussion of Microsoft and other foreign companies. The context in which it is used in the topic may also give the reader the impression that it is a standard throughout the Chinese government. TEDickey ( talk) 21:36, 27 October 2011 (UTC)
I don't think notability is at stake here; also I don't think we should be iffing or butting about what the book "really" meant. I'll just copy-paste from the citation into the article and remove dubious. -- Sigmundur ( talk) 04:42, 14 September 2012 (UTC)
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Just what does W.P.S. really means? It's never mentioned anywhere; yet it's obv an acronym of something. I'm mentioning because it reminded me of the old Novell's WordPerfect Suite. It's confusing if it's origins are not specifically stated; IMHO. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.56.118.152 ( talk) 08:41, 3 January 2014 (UTC)
I've gotten in touch with WPS since 1995, 20 years around. At the early days, it was called KingSun Super-WPS 文字处理系统, where WPS is short for Word Processing Unit, an editor specifically designed for Chinese language working on a Chinese DOS layer. If you know how to read Chinese, you could read this article which I created and wrote by myself since 2010. If possible, I plan to translate it into English and publish here. Later time, when its place and market was taken place by Microsoft Office, it has different meaning, W for Writer (word), P for Presentation (powerpoint) and S for Spreadsheets (excel). Today WPS Office has no relation with yesterday's Super-WPS, old file format support has long been dropped off. In 1990s, its name might be resemble to WS (Word Star), because Chinese language localised Word Star was popular before the appearance of Super-WPS. As to WordPerfect, even though similar name, few heard or even got in touch, without any relation to Super-WPS, no matter from the design or operation methods. Fairnessfighter ( talk) 22:41, 18 August 2015 (UTC)
Where did it get this name? This needs to be included. 174.3.125.23 ( talk) 08:23, 19 January 2014 (UTC)
"The name of WPS is an acronym for Writer, Presentation and Spreadsheets." http://www.ksosoft.com/office/354-wps-office-and-wps-extension.html#.Uz3N4VeNHIU -- 185.44.151.163 ( talk) 21:10, 3 April 2014 (UTC)
Currently, as I read, the section Pre-history has already mentioned where it get that name. GoldenQR ( talk) 01:26, 2 September 2015 (UTC)
Does this support the OpenDocument formats used by OpenOffice, NeoOffice, LibreOffice, etc.? Kind of important to know. 2601:643:867F:5370:31B1:4EA0:4AA8:9AA5 ( talk) 04:03, 23 February 2020 (UTC)
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I've found an article that states “Development of the free WPS Office for Linux is 'on a halt', the makers of the office suite have said on Twitter.”, implying that there is a (discontinued) free version, but I haven't found that in this article. Is there one? Orisphera2 ( talk) 13:10, 25 December 2022 (UTC)
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What about using eDeskonline in China ? Are Chinese language links that important for success ? Sanjiv swarup ( talk) 05:20, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
I have never heard of Kingsoft ever, i tried their product and it looked like a rebrand of open office. They claim they're not open source that itself is clear indication of that. Also they claim no JRE, i know why they don't want JRE because it is needed for Database in Open office and Kingsoft has none. Being chinese my self i think companies like Kingsoft give a bad name and total disregard to IP of other people like most of our companies here in China —Preceding unsigned comment added by 110.159.157.201 ( talk) 09:44, 3 July 2010 (UTC)
I recently started seeing auto insurance ads popping up in the corner of my desktop (with no title bar or other chrome identifying the source). A little investigation with Process Explorer showed the popper was wpscenter.exe, a background agent which identifies itself as "WPS service program for service such as login and Cloud storage" (and service such as sneaky undisclosed ads, apparently). It should be noted that WPS wasn't running, hadn't been running recently or since the last reboot, and there was no icon for the agent in the systray to indicate it was running, either. The ad conveniently disappeared as WPS Office was being uninstalled - which, needless to say, happened almost immediately.
Of course, a brief search didn't turn up any hits other than a three-year long conversation on Kingsoft's forums and a user comment on file.net, which probably makes my experience fall solidly under "original research" (assuming a particularly loose and lazy definition of "research"), but I found it interesting that there was little mention of advertising, and no mention at all of this sort of shady behavior in the article. Maybe another editor will stumble on a better source. If not, maybe another editor will at least be saved from the dire plague of mysterious auto insurance ads. -- 71.234.116.22 ( talk) 06:19, 15 August 2019 (UTC)
It seems that a number of WP:SPAs are providing sources which are only marketing literature, rather than addressing WP:Notability TEDickey ( talk) 19:08, 22 October 2011 (UTC)
I don't know why the source was marked as dubious.
http://books.google.de/books?id=JS_Af8c_eK0C&lpg=PP1&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false
BTW I have no connections to KingSoft nor any conflict of interest in this subject. I am rather just a moderate inclusionist. -- Koifkoi ( talk) 17:14, 27 October 2011 (UTC)
Despite the initial success of Microsoft's strategy, it is not certain whether its efforts are sufficient to dominate the Chinese market. In 2003, the Chinese government made Kingsoft office software the standard for various government branches. The decision in favor of Kingsoft, who had held a market share of 90 percent in the office software market in the early 1990s, demonstrates the government's preference for local companies, in spite of large investment by foreign companies.
That is, the statement in its original context is not intended to be a compliment to Kingsoft (the reverse is apparent). It's a minor statement in a lengthy discussion of Microsoft and other foreign companies. The context in which it is used in the topic may also give the reader the impression that it is a standard throughout the Chinese government. TEDickey ( talk) 21:36, 27 October 2011 (UTC)
I don't think notability is at stake here; also I don't think we should be iffing or butting about what the book "really" meant. I'll just copy-paste from the citation into the article and remove dubious. -- Sigmundur ( talk) 04:42, 14 September 2012 (UTC)
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Just what does W.P.S. really means? It's never mentioned anywhere; yet it's obv an acronym of something. I'm mentioning because it reminded me of the old Novell's WordPerfect Suite. It's confusing if it's origins are not specifically stated; IMHO. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.56.118.152 ( talk) 08:41, 3 January 2014 (UTC)
I've gotten in touch with WPS since 1995, 20 years around. At the early days, it was called KingSun Super-WPS 文字处理系统, where WPS is short for Word Processing Unit, an editor specifically designed for Chinese language working on a Chinese DOS layer. If you know how to read Chinese, you could read this article which I created and wrote by myself since 2010. If possible, I plan to translate it into English and publish here. Later time, when its place and market was taken place by Microsoft Office, it has different meaning, W for Writer (word), P for Presentation (powerpoint) and S for Spreadsheets (excel). Today WPS Office has no relation with yesterday's Super-WPS, old file format support has long been dropped off. In 1990s, its name might be resemble to WS (Word Star), because Chinese language localised Word Star was popular before the appearance of Super-WPS. As to WordPerfect, even though similar name, few heard or even got in touch, without any relation to Super-WPS, no matter from the design or operation methods. Fairnessfighter ( talk) 22:41, 18 August 2015 (UTC)
Where did it get this name? This needs to be included. 174.3.125.23 ( talk) 08:23, 19 January 2014 (UTC)
"The name of WPS is an acronym for Writer, Presentation and Spreadsheets." http://www.ksosoft.com/office/354-wps-office-and-wps-extension.html#.Uz3N4VeNHIU -- 185.44.151.163 ( talk) 21:10, 3 April 2014 (UTC)
Currently, as I read, the section Pre-history has already mentioned where it get that name. GoldenQR ( talk) 01:26, 2 September 2015 (UTC)
Does this support the OpenDocument formats used by OpenOffice, NeoOffice, LibreOffice, etc.? Kind of important to know. 2601:643:867F:5370:31B1:4EA0:4AA8:9AA5 ( talk) 04:03, 23 February 2020 (UTC)
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I've found an article that states “Development of the free WPS Office for Linux is 'on a halt', the makers of the office suite have said on Twitter.”, implying that there is a (discontinued) free version, but I haven't found that in this article. Is there one? Orisphera2 ( talk) 13:10, 25 December 2022 (UTC)