Recently, Kingsoft Office announced that it will hold the WPS "CHAO" office Conference in Sanlitun, Beijing on December 1, 2020. According to the invitation, Kingsoft Office is likely to release a new version of its WPS product. In addition, the Winter Olympics and the self-reliant Xinchuchuxing element based on Chinese technology, as well as keywords such as collaborative office and the new digital economy, have generated a lot of attention and speculation.
WPS chose CHAO Hotel in Beijing Sanlitun for the annual release, and featured the young and fashionable concept of "CHAO", which made the outside world curious. This is, after all, a product that started in the late 1980s -- probably the only one. The week before, Chanel had held a collection show in the same location.
WPS under Kingsoft Office is one of the office software products with the widest user coverage in China and truly international competitiveness. As it has been leading the trend of Chinese office in the four technological times of software, PC Internet, mobile Internet and intelligence, its every move has attracted much attention.
In July 2018, Kingsoft Office held the Future Office Conference in Beijing, and released four major new offices with "multi-screen, cloud, AI and content" as the core. From the past two years, WPS has fully completed the layout and landing of the new "four big pieces". Take multi-screen as an example. Currently, WPS has been highly praised in Apple iOS and MacOS versions, becoming one of the excellent office applications officially promoted by Apple. In addition, the performance of WPS on the domestic Linux operating system platform is also commendable. There is a widely circulated saying that "the domestic computer ecology is good, depending on how well WPS runs".
Focusing on the cloud, WPS series products have been fully cloud, users can seamlessly switch between multiple devices and multiple terminals with one account, cloud has become one of the core selling points of WPS to enhance the competitiveness of users in government and enterprise. It is worth noting that in the first half of 2020, as the largest office software product and service provider in China, Kingsoft Office donated more than 4 million cloud office accounts to local governments, schools, hospitals and small and medium-sized enterprises in addition to supporting more than 600 million people in China to work remotely from home when the epidemic was most severe after the Spring Festival. This kind of hardcore power is the first glimpse of the value of the "cloud office" that WPS laid out years ago.
Lei Jun, honorary chairman of Kingsoft Office, once said, "WPS is a heroic dream that perseveres to the end and eventually wins. One out of every five Chinese people is a WPS user." As of September 30, 2020, the monthly active users of Kingsoft Office products based on WPS were 457 million, an increase of 19.63% compared with the same period last year. Among them, the monthly active users of WPS Office PC version were 176 million, with a year-on-year growth of 23.08%; Mobile monthly active users were 274 million, up 19.13% year on year; Other products such as Kingsoft Word and other monthly active users have nearly 10 million. With the Rice husk platform that provides a large number of Office templates and materials, as well as the efficient office experience supported by AI, WPS has become a national office brand comparable to Microsoft Office.
In its official tweet, Kingsoft Office said that at the WPS "CHAO" office Conference on December 1, WPS will have a new definition -- office service platform, and WPS will have a new connotation. At the same time, the invitation reminds us, after the annual update, what are the surprises of WPS? How will WPS lead the office trend in the next decade? These are topics that many users of WPS are interested in, so let's wait and see.
