Office products are foreign software, and commonly used components include Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Frontage, etc. At the same time, it is paid software. Would you say that what you use is free? What you are using is actually pirated and cracked software. Some cracked versions may even lose some functions. WPS is a completely free domestic software that can be downloaded and used at will.
Speaking of these two softwares, it is often said on the Internet that WPS plagiarizes Office. Whether it is plagiarized or not is up to you to think about! In addition to Kingsoft software factors, maintaining smooth communication within the company and unifying the office platform are the real reasons why Xiaomi banned Office. Some people may ask, Microsoft Office and WPS are surprisingly similar. Which one did they copy? Isn't there a copyright issue? In 1996, Microsoft finally took the initiative to approach Kingsoft. Microsoft hoped that Kingsoft would share the WPS format with Microsoft and make the two compatible with each other. Then, the two parties signed an agreement-both parties would read each other's files through the middle layer RTF format of their own software.
What does it mean for the WPS format to be open to Microsoft? Simply put, at that time, original WPS users could use Microsoft Word to open and edit WPS format documents. At the same time, WPS can also open and edit documents in Office format.
It is this seemingly simple hope and requirement that allowed Microsoft to seize the Chinese market with almost no effort. The first thing Microsoft did when entering China was to find a way to transfer old WPS users to the Word platform. Microsoft did a good job in publicity, and used bundled sales and condoned piracy (because personal use of piracy is not illegal), quickly occupied China's market share, and almost put Kingsoft into bankruptcy.
Lei Jun even publicly complained: "We were fooled by Microsoft." Lei Jun was forced to tear down all WPS code and redesign WPS to be compatible with Microsoft. In August 2002, when Lei Jun proposed to Qiu Bojun that we were going to rewrite WPS with 35 million yuan in 3 years, what did you think? Qiu Bojun agreed after being silent.