Kingsoft Office Software
Chinese software company
Beijing Kingsoft Office Software, Inc. (Chinese: 金山办公; pinyin: Jīnshān Bàngōng) is a publicly listed Chinese software company. Its most notable product is the office suite, WPS Office.
It is a subsidiary of Kingsoft.
Background
In 1988, Kingsoft was founded and in the same year launched the first edition of the Kingsoft Office suite (renamed to WPS Office in 2014).
In 2011, Lei Jun returned to Kingsoft where he became its chairman while also chairing Xiaomi. The strategy of Kingsoft changed to focus more on mobile devices and Kingsoft started yielding more power to its subsidiaries and joint ventures.
In December 2011, the Kingsoft Office unit was spun-off as a separate unit named Kingsoft Office Software. This was considered the turning point for Kingsoft Office which until this point had struggled competing with Microsoft Office in China. Kingsoft Office was able to enter android devices four years earlier than Microsoft Office which allowed it to win over more users including those in overseas markets.
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