Kingsoft About a week ago I featured Kingsoft Office Suite Professional 2012 in a bonus deal. Since then I've been test-driving the software on an old laptop. And you know what? I mention this because although the Kingsoft Professional giveaway is over, you can still for, well, free. Update: This program is for Windows. Until last week, I'd never heard of Kingsoft or this product. Try out these Excel alternatives for data management, organization, analysis and visualization to help your team. I had, however, tried all the usual freebie Microsoft Office alternatives: OpenOffice, LibreOffice, Lotus Symphony, Google Docs, and so on. They're all OK--good enough, certainly, for most users--but I'll admit I've become spoiled by Microsoft's Ribbon interface, which made its debut in Office 2007 and carried over to Office 2010. The famed freebies mostly resemble Office 2003--if not an even earlier version. Kingsoft Office looks a lot like Office 2010, and consequently I feel right at home in it. (Update: Only the Pro version gives you the option of an Office 2010-style interface. My apologies for the error.) A few commenters last week accused it of being a 'Chinese rip-off,' but last time I checked, software created in China wasn't inherently bad. (By the way, Kingsoft is actually based in Hong Kong.) What's more, the developers may have borrowed heavily from Microsoft's user interface, but so did the developers of OpenOffice and similar suites; they just borrowed from an older Microsoft UI.
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