Dear all,

I heard there is free software call Kingsoft that similar to Microsoft office. Would like to try out but before that, any user of Kingsoft and can get some advise/comment? I mainly use excel, word & powerpoint only. I don't need outlook.

Thanks in advance.

MS office can get cheap for personal , kingsoft u have to familiar like apache office

I have done some price survey for MS office. the cheapest is RM 300 for MS office Home & Student 2013 but I need to use it at office so my colleague from IT department say need MS office Home & Business in order to use at office/commercial. MS office Home and Business 2013 cost RM 700. Too expensive.

It is now known as WPS Office. It depends on how extensive you use the Excel. If you need the functionality of VBA, then probably you still better buy MS Office. For office use or Personal? Student version is cheap I believe

https://www.wps.com/wps-office-personal

Your office don't provide MS Office? Then how the company expect you to do your work if you really need Excel? Your office has limited license? Like some companies installed Libre Office for most of their staffs except manager and above

then go for apache office many gomen use it now .

It just a normal usage like admin work. Not doing accounting or chart. It is for both, personal and office use.

Ya, MS student 2013 just cost RM300 but cant be used at office according to my colleague from IT.

Libre office will done the job

Thanks for another source for office........

Looks like WPS (Kingsoft) is not free for business but personal

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_office_suites

I'd just go with Libre Office

My company did provide MS Office for office computer but I need to use personal laptop to do personal thing at office. So Libre office can do work like MS Office?

I see. Yes, it will. A group of programmer split from Open Office project when Oracle took over the Open Office because they did not like the term and limited freedom under Oracle. So they formed Libre Office. For general use, it is very much like MS Office

Ya, Libre office seem support better from the Wikipedia....thanks for the info....

Cool....I tot only Kingsoft (WPS office) but now Libre Office seem better....will try it out...

kek kingsoft.

There are no replacement for MS office, even if you need alternative go for openoffice.org or libre office

WPS and Libre can open Microsoft Office files
BUT
arrangement of letters (e.g. ad brochure) is not guaranteed.
If you are just doing tables you will have no problems.

Basically the simpler the document the more accurate it will be as compared to the Microsoft original.

The free office suites are NOT 100% compatible. But, they work well enough for (most) simple documents.

Personal laptop, personal MS-Office
Therefore, should be able to use home & student version.

yup LibreOffice is the way to go but its compatibility with Office 2007 and later sucks especially in the case of Impress / Powerpoint (gimmicks do not work vice versa)...