[7] By 2022, WPS Office reached a number of more than 494 million monthly active users and over 1.2 billion installations.
For a time, Kingsoft branded the suite as "KSOffice" for the international market, but later returned to "WPS Office".
Kingsoft collaborated with Intel and IBM to integrate its text-to-text and text-to-speech technology into WPS Office Storm.
In 2011, Kingsoft Office was granted funding from the Chinese government[12] and received further orders from central ministries in China.
[14] The initial release for Android included standard word processor functions such as creating documents, spreadsheets, and presentations.
They consist of three programs: Writer, Spreadsheets, and Presentation, which are similar to Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
[17] On December 16, 2014, WPS Office 2014 for Windows, build 9.1.0.4932, was released as a subscription model for a monthly charge of US$3 for some features.
The free version provided basic features and supported Microsoft Office .doc, .xls, and .ppt file formats.
[18] On June 21, 2016, WPS Office 2016 for Windows became generally available as Freemium software, with no subscription needed for basic features.
On July 22, 2021, WPS Office arrived on Huawei's new HarmonyOS platform on smartphones and tablets with Multi-terminal document service capabilities as a native APP format.
HarmonyOS version comes with large-screen presentation, small-screen prompts, text highlighting to focus on key information, full-screen video playback without professional settings, small-screen graffiti, large-screen presentation, picture zoom information at a glance, atomic service on-the-go.
[24] WPS Office has versions for multiple operating systems: Windows, macOS, Linux (Fedora, CentOS, OpenSUSE, Ubuntu, Mint, Knoppix),[25] Android, iOS and HarmonyOS.
[27] Since at least 2018, threat actor 'Blackwood' has used sophisticated methods to operate as an Adversary-in-the-Middle (AitM) to inject malware identified as 'NSPX30' into update mechanisms for WPS Office.