Introduction

WPS (Word Processing System), which means text editing system in Chinese, is an office software of Kingsoft. It integrates editing and printing, with rich full screen editing functions, and also provides various control output formats and printing functions, making the printed manuscript both beautiful and standardized, basically meeting the needs and requirements of various writers in editing and printing documents. It first appeared in 1989, before the emergence of the Microsoft Windows system and the prevalence of the DOS system. WPS was once the most popular word processing software in China, and now the latest versions of WPS are the 2013 Personal Edition, Enterprise Edition, and 2013 Campus Edition 2013 Trial Edition. In Chinese Mainland, Kingsoft has defeated Microsoft many times in government procurement. Many governments and agencies in Chinese Mainland now have WPS Office software, which is also popular in colleges and universities because of its free, ingenious and easy to use.

Introduction

As a subsidiary of Kingsoft that focuses on enterprise business, Beijing Jinshan Office Software Co., Ltd. is mainly engaged in WPS series office software. Adhering to the belief of technological success, Jinshan Office Software continues to increase investment in the research and development of domestically produced office software, achieving a comprehensive transformation towards internetization.

In 1989, the development of Chinese word processing software WPS was completed, and after three years of development, it quickly occupied most of the Chinese office software market. In the leapfrog development of subsequent versions, WPS has become one of the most successful office software products in China, winning the second prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award twice in 2000 and 2007, respectively. In June 2012, Jinshan WPS Office won the World Intellectual Property Organization Gold Award for Copyright Works, which is currently the highest copyright award awarded by WIPO in China.

In 2012, Jinshan WPS Office has become one of the most widely used domestically produced office software by the Chinese government. It has been successfully purchased and applied in more than 70 central government units, including the General Administration of Press and Publication, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Ministry of Transport, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, the State owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, and the Audit Office. As of June 30, 2012, domestic provincial governments have completed the procurement of genuine office software. Kingsoft WPS has been purchased and applied in all provincial governments, accounting for nearly two-thirds of the total procurement volume, making it the highest among domestic and foreign office software manufacturers.

In recent years, Kingsoft WPS Office has also been widely used in large enterprises such as central and state-owned enterprises. In 2008, State Grid Corporation of China purchased Kingsoft WPS, becoming a model for large enterprises to successfully apply domestically produced office software. In December 2009, the centralized purchase network of central enterprises' legitimate software was officially launched. More than ten large central enterprises, including China General Motors, Sinosteel, Aerospace Science and Industry Group, Putian Group, CNOOC Group and other enterprises, signed agreements with Kingsoft to purchase Jinshan WPS Office software products in a unified manner. Currently, more than half of the 113 central enterprises directly under the State owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (SASAC) have chosen to purchase and apply WPS.

Jinshan WPS has formed a leading position among central enterprises in national key and backbone industries such as finance (typical users: People's Bank of China, Agricultural Bank of China, China CITIC Bank), power (typical users: State Grid, China Southern Power Grid, Huadian Group, China Power Investment Corporation, Huaneng Group, etc.), iron and steel (Angang Group, Baosteel Group, Wuhan Iron and Steel Corporation, etc.), energy (Metallurgical Technology and Industry Group, China National Chemical Engineering, China Coal Energy, etc.), Continuing to consolidate and expand its advantageous position in the large enterprise level legitimate user market.

Highly compatible with office

WPS, which has always been focusing on differential development, has completely adjusted its Technology roadmap in the 2005 version, taking compatibility as the biggest breakthrough point. The author found that this "compatibility spirit" has greatly surpassed the previous software interfaces and file formats, truly penetrated into the underlying software technology, and achieved breakthroughs in the interoperability of "technical" files such as encryption and macros.

The software consists of three modules: WPS text, WPS table, and WPS presentation, which strictly correspond to MS Office's Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Regardless of which module of WPS software, we see a typical XP style operating interface. The settings of the toolbar and some function buttons are almost identical to MS Office. If it weren't for the icon prompt in the upper left corner of the file, users would be difficult to distinguish between each other.

By maintaining consistency with MS Office and achieving compatibility with user operating habits, users can truly get started at "zero time", which greatly reduces the difficulty of software promotion and usage, effectively reduces training time, and greatly reduces software migration costs.

Achieving compatibility in operating habits is only a superficial manifestation of the "compatibility spirit", where various files can be opened without any difference in content display. This is the core issue that users are concerned about. Indeed, especially in this era that emphasizes communication and exchange, how can we tolerate the obstacles of communication with the outside world caused by incompatibility issues. So, if the WPS 2005 file format cannot be fully compatible with MS Office, then WPS 2005 users will become Robinson on an island.

The compatibility between WPS 2005 and mainstream foreign Office is not the general one-way compatibility that WPS 2005 can only open other Office files, but a breakthrough two-way compatibility! The compatibility of formats goes beyond that. The files that MS Office and WPS 2005 read from each other, whether they are Chinese or English files, can achieve precise results with no word difference and no line difference! To achieve this level of precise compatibility, Jinshan Company must have made significant technological breakthroughs. Because some foreign Office companies once believed that it was impossible to achieve compatibility with every word and line.

The implementation of deep compatibility between the encryption and decryption file channels and the ability to directly run VBA macro code is currently a technical bottleneck that is difficult to overcome for other Office software.

WPS tables can be referenced across Excel files. If the referenced XLS file data is changed, the referenced data in the WPS table file will be updated synchronously. This feature reflects product compatible data consistency and application spanning.

The WPS demonstration demonstrates high compatibility in terms of animation effects, graphic types, and multi motherboard support.

Recommendation function

WPS, which has always been focusing on differential development, has completely adjusted its Technology roadmap in the 2005 version, taking compatibility as the biggest breakthrough point. This "compatibility spirit" has greatly surpassed the previous software interfaces and file formats, truly penetrated into the underlying software technology, and achieved breakthroughs in the interoperability of "technical" files such as encryption and macros.

Driven by piracy, the usage habits of foreign Office have become the default standard, which is a fact that no other Office manufacturer can avoid and must face. How to provide users with the greatest recognition and satisfaction for products with the minimum conversion cost has always been a problem that troubles Kingsoft. After four months of painful choices in 2002, Kingsoft finally made a decision that caught the industry's attention: to abandon the traditional WPS technology that has been around for 14 years, refactor the code, and build a new generation of office platforms.

This software consists of three modules: WPS text, WPS table, and WPS presentation strictly corresponding to MS Office's Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Regardless of which module of WPS software, it has a typical XP style operating interface, and the settings of toolbars and some function buttons are almost identical to MS Office. If it weren't for the icon prompt in the upper left corner of the file, users would find it difficult to distinguish each other.

By maintaining consistency with MS Office and achieving compatibility with user operating habits, users can truly get started at "zero time", which greatly reduces the difficulty of software promotion and usage, effectively reduces training time, and greatly reduces software migration costs. Achieving compatibility in operating habits is only a superficial manifestation of the "compatibility spirit", where various files can be opened without any difference in content display. This is the core issue that users are concerned about. Indeed, especially in this era that emphasizes communication and exchange, how can we tolerate the obstacles of communication with the outside world caused by incompatibility issues. So, if the WPS 2005 file format cannot be fully compatible with MS Office, then WPS 2005 users will become Robinson on an island.

The compatibility between WPS 2005 and mainstream foreign Office is not a general one-way compatibility where WPS 2005 can only open other Office files, but a breakthrough two-way compatibility. The compatibility of formats goes beyond this. Note that the files read between MS Office and WPS 2005, whether in Chinese or English, can achieve precise results of word accuracy and line accuracy. To achieve this level of precise compatibility, Jinshan Company must have made significant technological breakthroughs. Because some foreign Office companies once believed that it was impossible to achieve compatibility with every word and line.

It is not only the compatibility of file format and operation habits, but also Serendipity discovered after trial that WPS Office can directly open the encrypted DOC, XLS, and PPT files when the password is known. Not only that, WPS Office 2005 can also directly open DOC documents with macro code, which eliminates the worries of MS Office advanced users during file transfer.

The implementation of deep compatibility between the encryption and decryption file channels and the ability to directly run VBA macro code is still a technical bottleneck that is difficult to break through for other Office software.

WPS tables can be referenced across Excel files. If the referenced XLS file data is changed, the referenced data in the WPS table file will be updated synchronously. This feature reflects product compatible data consistency and application spanning. The WPS demonstration demonstrates high compatibility in terms of animation effects, graphic types, and multi motherboard support.