WPS Office also know as KingSoft Office is a Chinese company that develops an office suite with an environment similar to that of MS Office. WPS Office is free but closed source. The Chinese company has decided to venture into GNU / Linux with their office suite.
So far the company provides a BETA version for GNU / Linux with 32-bit architecture, which can also be run on GNU / Linux With 64-bit architecture, it is available in Chinese and English.
I personally out of curiosity installed it to see what the environment of this suite was like on Linux Mint 14 with 64-bit architecture. Here is a video that I uploaded to Youtube, so you can see the environment of the BETA WPS Office.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewnO77fwxy4
Install WPS Office on Ubuntu or Linux Mint with 64-bit architecture
Once the WPS Office package is downloaded, we open the terminal and place.
sudo apt-get install ia32-libs
these libraries will allow us to run WPS Office in Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Fedora y OpenSuse with 64-bit architecture. Then we install the program with GDebi manually.
Change the language from Chinese to English
We open the WPS Office and close it. Then we open the terminal and write:
cd / opt / kingsoft / wps-office / office6 / 2052
sudo rm qt.qm wps.qm wpp.qm et.qm
Conclusion
In conclusion, I think it's good to know that GNU / Linux is going strong in Asia. WPS Office is closed source, but it is yet another future-oriented alternative for GNU / Linux users.
It is also good to see a competition to improve office suites in GNU / Linux. Of course my feeling will always be with free software, that is, LibreOffice, Calligra, AbiWord, etc. Well they can give their constructive opinions.
Well, I'm not sure if it could become a competition for the existing office suites in Gnu / linux, since for that it would have to be popular among users, but it is interesting to see that companies want to venture into Gnu / linux.
Well, I do not know if that of the popularity of the talk is worth for the comment of use ... If it is used in China, a few million who will use it ...
I tried it on windows and I must say that after the language trauma, it is a true clone of office 2010 (but you can put the buttons in 2003 style), and it works amazing, compatibility with docx, xlsx, and pptx very good
If only it were in Spanish ...
This software is "famous" on Android, so this can be your gateway.
I don't think it will eat the market, but maybe it will push it enough that LibreOffice does not rest on its laurels
I'll stick with the LibreOffice interface 😀
I really don't understand those who use libre office
Looks great! If one day they release a language pack for Linux, in Spanish, I install it 🙂 and remove the libreoffice
I agree with you. What's more, I hope LibreOffice improves its compatibility with Office documents.
Kingsoft officce uses the LO dictionaries.
What do you mean by using LO dictionaries, that is, is it possible to download a dictionary to correct the Spanish texts ??
I use it on Android and it's tremendous, but I leave it there, I don't think I will install it on PC 🙂
it is one of the best alternatives on android, even better than my beloved quick office
In Archlinux you can find it in AUR as wpsforlinux, at least it seems to be an office 2007 clone, it will be time to test it in format compatibility to see how it is.
Oh it looks good to me I have never liked the way it looks openoffice / libreoffice although I don't think I will change it for google docs which is my favorite right now>.
I really like that yes, but… closed source and Chinese software? WTF !! , no joke I use that.
I already made a little closer and I can assure you that Libreoffice is better than this, especially when it comes to format compatibility, it cannot even open OOXML formats, something Libreoffice does. What I do agree with is that Libreoffice will have to change its appearance, because it is good software.
HA HA HA HA HA HA! The same I say. Whoops, leave that ...
these Chinese, they make copies of everything….
true 😀
Microsoft's lawsuit in 3 .. 2 .. 1 ..
They are Chinese, they can do little! xD
Elav…. Corel Word Perfect .. a while ago I should have a sentence …… I think I copy it better to Office …… .. http://www.muypymes.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/corel-office.png .
Corel is not a small company.
:O
Corel WordPerfect is the grandfather of Microsoft Word. WordPerfect became popular in the second half of the 80's, and in the early 90's, Microsoft Word outperformed it in compatibility with the primitive Windows desktop back then. From that moment on, Word and the rest of the Office suite were consolidated thanks to their then well-built interface compared to the old adequacy that the WordPerfect GUI meant.
End of legend.
They are Chinese…
+1
If Microsoft sues the Chinese, the Chinese tell them, "Okay, charge US." Or better yet it would be if they were so upset that they took over the US. Total, with what the US owes to China, I do not doubt that this is very far from reality ... xD
Well, the interface is nice to me, as mentioned above I use it in android and it looks good (I would say enough). if it is compatible with vba I will be happy !!!!!!
O________O It doesn't surprise me much, after all they are CHINESE ... XD
Anyway I find it interesting that the Chinese and more people develop in GNU / Linux ... We are many and we will be more hehehehe .... The application is good, although for now I stay with my ugly but powerful LibreOffice.
I do not install Chinese (or other communist country) closed source or pod software !!!
That MUST be full of Spywares and worse.
There is more software that contains spyware and we don't even know about it, and Ubuntu with the new plugins also does the same, only for amazon.
regards
Sorry for who uses ubuntu then XD.
@Fenix, I don't know if you find out, but what Ubuntu plugins do is do a search in Amazon in a faster way than if you open the browser in a traditional way, and with the HUGE difference of a Spyware, these CAN BE DECIDED If you want to install it or not, that is, if you don't want anyone on Amazon to find "your terrible plan O to defeat the world" because you don't know where it is on your PC, then you just uninstall the happy lens and voila, the magic was done ...
The problem is that not everyone who uses Ubuntu knows how to uninstall Lens .. and that's when things happen, and Gay Porn things appear as I recently read somewhere .. 😛
Exactly, there are two of us ...
If it were open source I would have no problems installing it hahaha
It worries me more that he was American than Chinese, really!
LOL …. it's true ... no one knows what Microsoft's Office is like inside…. above you pay Microsoft…. and they ask you for the product key, to make sure it is not a pirated product.
You have stolen it from my mouth ...
The truth is that a similar appearance change would not hurt LO, because this "WPS Office" seems to take time to be in Spanish ...
I would choose for it to support a very moldable skin system, so that each one could move and change as they wanted, I know it is difficult, but it would be a great option!
I read Giskard and he reminded me of those who talk about free software without knowing it! xD
Seriously, as if only from communist countries there were spyware cofcofcofGooglecofcof.
No. But the CIA is not going to investigate me because I am, technically, on their side. They are capitalists and so am I. I also live in an "allied" country. I am not your "enemy." But the Chinese could be because of the differences.
In any case, I DO NOT USE CLOSED CODE SOFTWARE (of any kind), but if I were given a choice between one made in the USA and another in China (and I had no option) I would choose the one from the USA.
I hope my explanation has made you understand my point of view better.
A Cuban Preferring Uses Than China? haha this I had not seen,
Haha but then not only the communist countries, they are the ones who investigate. Remember that the communist countries became communist to protect themselves from the capitalist countries, in past wars and conflicts.
I am not a Cuban friend of mine. In fact, I am about 2 thousand km from that island.
Correction: About 4 thousand km.
ComuniSTAR?
That must be the China Mobile Phone, right?
: cough: cough:: Don't tell me:
In fact, gringo intelligence investigates even its own citizens and you are going to say that they will not investigate you because you are an ally country hahaha, also the isp of the usa will spy on you so that you do not download pirated content from p2p networks and if you do they will redirect you to that you read the anti-piracy laws and incidentally limit your connection speed as punishment.
Are you going to say you don't use closed source software? I will mention some of basic use. MP3, RAR, FLASH PLAYER sound you or you don't use them?
About the software it is a great alternative for those who migrate from Windows to Ubuntu or want a free alternative in Windows, they will adapt quickly, I already like it and I will recommend it!
If we are going to talk about spyware, Google Chrome is the king and it is so popular, but since it is used, there is nothing to say.
I would not rely on the origin of the developers. According to your approach, I would choose the application that I like the most. Geopolitics in software does not paint anything (spyware was not invented in China).
If you handle sensitive information that could endanger the security of capitalist nations, don't follow my example. Enemy powers are on the prowl ;-).
Well, if they give me a choice, I'll dust off my old typewriter.
that's very yankee
I don't install this even out of curiosity, are we stupid or what?
Why does an office suite need to connect to the internet WHEN WE HAVE NOT ASKED IT?
This shows that the most critical element in computer security is sitting in front of the computer.
Hahahaha it looks good, but I keep my LibreOffice I love it and it is 100% free software, I still do not open LO to see the interface I only do it to work haha 😛
mmm that weird, me ran excellent, although for now I'm using calligraph for everything.
regards
I like this office suite, it has impressive speed, ease of use, low resource consumption and the response times before libreoffice are impressive.
Coming down to test.
On my Kubuntu 12.10 x64 I have LibreOffice 4.0.1 and for some things that don't work well, I use the MS Office 2010 that I installed by Playonlinux.
EDIT: It does not open the presentations, the totally outdated spreadsheets and the only thing that works well is the Writer ... uninstalling.
I don't want to sound judgmental, but I don't install that to hell! That must have integrated some kind of technology that even records people with everything and the camera turned off ... be careful 'if it records us even with the computer turned off and they listen to conversations. Oops!
The compatibility with .odt as it takes it? I say this because I had installed it on android and nothing.
By the way, does anyone know of any office automation application for android compatible with .odt etc.? the only thing I have found has been a reader, but without the possibility of editing
It looks good, but for those of us who are used to working with the Libreoffice it will not be so comfortable. Although it is good news that the interface similarity may attract more people to the world of free software and eventually free. The bad thing that I see with WPS is that it does not support .odt or .odp 🙁
Well, does anyone know how much ram it consumes? Because if it goes over 300 mb or even if it goes over 200 mb, it does have spyware, but if it isn't just a little program that does what it says and if it's not in Spanish I won't install it .
Policies of my Vaio XD.
Although I think its interface is very cheeky, almost a clone of office 2007 and 2010.
Maybe if the interface were the same but more gtk type or simpler but always respecting the chip system, I would install it, and it is not because it is Chinese; in fact I have more distrust of the USA than the United States.
bye nii.
sorry I wanted to say China XD.
Merlin see what Corel does with Corel Word Perfect.… ..
http://www.muypymes.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/corel-office.png
Corel makes practically according to my criteria an Office 2010 clone
It will be Chinese or whatever they want, but as it is compatible with VisualC ++ macros in excel tables, I install it NOW 😀
I tell them I try to help with the LibreOffice community.
Yesterday a profile went to the LibreOffice wall on Google +, and I published this video.
A quilombo broke out on the wall. The guy was asking to change the user interface to LibreOffice.
LibreOffice users called it TROLL.
I think they deleted their post.
For me it is good to see the opinions of the users of the GNU / Linux community.
Damn, what's the use of accepting an offimatic system if one cannot improve it, even when we will accept that they spy on us and make a system that they later sell at the expense of the voluntary codes that a hundred people made.
XDo not fall for it, Office beta for GNU / LINUX is nothing more than a hook to continue spying on what we do in the free world and then do something better in the private world.
improve libreffice the iintreface and adds
an example i found:
http://pauloup.deviantart.com/gallery/28216273
http://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=25309.0
http://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=25309.0;attach=54747;image
inspired by blender: http:http://lh3.ggpht.com/_1QSDkzYY2vc/TEh0OMjuBTI/AAAAAAAABjA/v1ugkEG4IFI/blender-2.53.png
or better than this interface
Chinese application to make documents that mysteriously connects to the internet without being asked, 'white and bottled'
It is very good, I say it because by installing the proprietary sources of MS the WPS could open all my word and powerpoint documents, since the latter never looked good in libreoffice. It reproduced all the effects, and having a familiar interface, in fact the same, I was able to create a very easy pptx that looked completely good in MS office, perfect to be able to use linux and send the work to a university colleague who hopefully knows that there is windows XP and 7
Regarding the origin, if we say that it is Chinese, we think that it is of poor quality, because in this case I have used it looking for the fault and I have not had problems or freezes or crashes of the program. I don't think the program spies, and even if it did, the pure fact of browsing with any other program on the internet does.
It remains to be polished for the West, since it shows that it is made for that culture, no more seeing its website and the home page that connects to the internet than if it can be deactivated, or even use a firewall in case of feeling watched.
We take out the format compatibility and the known (and editable) appearance as an advantage, and the language limitation as a disadvantage that I hope will be solved soon.
How you can deactivate the home page
I just installed it on my PC but I have already been using it on android, as far as I am concerned it is a good option since as we all know, although we have free office suite in GNU / Linux, they do not present the same compatibility with documents created by Microsoft Office, and in my case that I have completely switched to using Ubuntu, I have difficulties when using some .docx and .pptx documents with LibreOffice.
I am not saying that this Program is perfect and that it can replace Microsoft, but evaluating its performance and time in this Operating System, I think it is the one that is closest.
I'm not an expert Ubuntu user so don't be insulted by this.
A new version of WPS or KingSoft for Linux is out.
You can download it from here.
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2013/05/microsoft-office-clone-wps-updates-interface-improves
Photo of the new version of KingSoft Office Beta for Linux
https://securecdn.disqus.com/uploads/mediaembed/images/499/3376/original.jpg
I have tried the latest version that they have released and it is very good with the new icons and you can choose Chinese or English language, but I still do not change it for LibreOffice until they release a Spanish version I will not change it at all but it is quite interesting this latest update that they have released.
If you are using LibreOffice 4.0.x you can try the icons that I am developing for LibreOffice.
You can see and download them in this post I just made.
https://blog.desdelinux.net/libreoffice-4-0-3-pequenas-mejoras-en-el-artwork/#comments
i have mixed feelings glad they take linux seriously but sad they can forget free and open source
Jose Al… I have seen that Elementary OS users use WPS OFFICE and have put LibreOffice aside and forgotten because its interface is not modern.
A percentage of younger users also think so.
I prefer the FreeOffice. I'd be willing to pay for that Suite.
How to put it in Spanish. thanks
The sequel to Chavez left much more ignorance than what already existed in the third world, reading comments where they segment a product by its origin makes me ashamed. Point 1, KingSoft is not a Chinese government company. Point 2, MSOficce was developed by many people (including Chinese). Point 3, whether we have this software in Spanish will depend on how much we want to contribute as a community. (http://wps-community.org/download/)