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Posted: **Wed Nov 16, 2011 12:42 pm**

Although many web sites are listing the program as freeware (to their credit, Softpedia calls it a demo and Wikipedia has it right), many users have pointed out the program becomes crippleware after 1 year. I post about it because I spent a lot of time looking into a way to make the program portable before I figured this out. Hopefully this will save time for anyone else who looks into it.

PortableApps contacted the company about producing a packaged version of their program, but that doesn't look like its going to happen.

Posted: **Wed Sep 25, 2013 3:43 am**

You may be interested to look at http://www.raymond.cc/blog/microsoft-of ... -than-2mb/

According to them, Kingsoft Portable exists.

Posted: **Wed Sep 25, 2013 4:43 am**

That one is illegal...

http://www.portablefreeware.com/forums/ ... hp?t=12359

Posted: **Fri Aug 08, 2014 10:19 pm**

Kingsoft Office is now WPS Office and could be considered freeware:
http://www.wps.com/windows/

If only it was natively portable.

Posted: **Thu Aug 31, 2017 2:30 pm**

So I did a little digging on WPS Office. This seems to suggest that -- unless you buy the premium version -- you've got adware: https://www.wps.com/office-personal-home-smb ... additionally, skipping spellcheck in the free version and shoving a watermark in printouts seems to me like crippleware.

Techradar and laptopmag confirm this:
http://www.techradar.com/reviews/wps-office-free
https://www.laptopmag.com/reviews/software/wps-office

CNet confirms the watermark bit (and recommends Libreoffice instead):
https://www.cnet.com/news/and-the-award ... e-goes-to/

Renaming thread.

Posted: **Wed Dec 16, 2020 9:02 am**

webfork wrote: ↑Wed Nov 16, 2011 12:42 pm PortableApps contacted the company about producing a packaged version of their program, but that doesn't look like its going to happen.

Post of January 14, 2020 of user KingsoftOffice on PortableApps:
-> PortableApps.com -> Forums -> Office Apps Support -> WPSOffice Portable Dev Test 1 https://portableapps.com/node/61502

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• Free and complete office suite: Document, Spreadsheets, Presentation and PDF
• Supporting 51 file formats, including doc, docx, dotm, docm, xls, xlsx, xlt, xltx, ppt, pptx, rtf, csv, xml, wpt, dot, dotx, ett, potx, pptx and pdf. These formats are compatible with all Microsoft Word, 
  Excel, PowerPoint and Adobe PDF formats.
• Fully compatible with MS Office, Google DocS, Adobe PDF, etc.
• Edit and manage PDF for reading, comment, editing, and conversion
• Rich gallery of high quality templates for Document, Spreadsheets and Presentation
• Support for remote work and online study

Download
• link: https://wdl1.pcfg.cache.wpscdn.com/wpsd ... _1.paf.exe
• file hash: MD5: 294B8A5D55F6A25729E86F743FC0B130
• size of PAF installer: 164,172 KB
• this build is complete and free

Details of previous post https://portableapps.com/node/61502:

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• John T. Haller - July 30, 2020 
  Reached Out
  I've reached out via email about the possibility of this moving forward
• KingsoftOffice - September 18, 2020 
  Great, thanks a lot John!
  Hello, John
  I have replied to your email and look forward to further cooperation

Then Covid-19 ... (I think)

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