Kingsoft Corporation

This article describes the Chinese company; for the German company of the same name, see Kingsoft .

Kingsoft
legal form
ISIN	KYG5264Y1089
founding	1989
Seat	Beijing and Zhuhai
management	Pak Kwan Kau
Number of employees	over 900
sales	5,181.3 million RMB (2017)
Branch	Software industry
Website	www.ksosoft.com

Kingsoft ( Chinese : 金山 软件; pinyin: jīnshān ruǎnjiàn ; literally: " Gold Mountain Software ") is a Chinese software company with research and development centers and offices in Beijing , Chengdu , Dalian , Zhuhai , Hong Kong and the United States and over 900 employees. The company's focus is on the development of software for the Internet and Microsoft Windows systems.

The company also founded Cheetah Mobile , a global leader in the development of mobile apps and provider for mobile Internet, and worked on various security software . The company gained international fame through WPS Office , which is a cheaper alternative to Microsoft Office .

Products

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The company's products include:

• WPS Office , an office suite with word processing , spreadsheet and presentation program for Microsoft Windows , Android , iOS and Linux as freeware and in several paid versions
• Kingsoft Internet Security, an antivirus program
• Kingsoft PC Doctor, a software for optimizing the system
• LieBao Secure, a web browser
• Kingsoft Power Word, machine translation software between English and Chinese
• Kingsoft KuaiPan, a cloud storage for Windows, Mac OS, Android and iOS
• Driver Genius, software for managing and updating device drivers
• and WPS Data Recovery Master, a software for data recovery

history

Kingsoft was founded in 1988 by the Kingsun company in Hong Kong by Pak Kwan Kau. Kingsun was a manufacturer of IBM - PCs , was established in the 1,973th In 1993 another branch was opened in Zhuhai and in 1994 the headquarters were relocated to Beijing .

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Kingsoft researched and developed word processors and other office applications , such as its flagship product Word Processing System 1.0 , which launched in 1989 . The product was later renamed Kingsoft Office and then WPS Office. This product has over 1 billion registered users, according to Kingsoft.

Beijing Kingsoft Entertainment Company was established in 2003 and Beijing Kingsoft Security Company in 2009 .

Kingsoft has established collaborations with large companies such as Dell , Intel , Dropbox , Lenovo and IBM .

Web links

• Official website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ [1]
2. ↑ The Inside Story Of China's High-Tech Industry: Making Silicon Valley in Beijing . In: Yu Zhou . 2008, p. 113 .
3. ↑ Cheetah Mobile Tops Internet Services Category in WPP's BrandZ Top 30 Chinese Global Brand Builders 2017 Ranking. Accessed August 27, 2018 (English). 
4. ↑ The Best Microsoft Office Alternative You've Never Heard Of . In: PCWorld . ( pcworld.com [accessed August 27, 2018]).
5. ↑ ^{a b} Company Info. Retrieved August 27, 2018 . 
6. ↑ about-us. Accessed August 27, 2018 (English). 
7. ^ Company Info. Retrieved August 27, 2018 .