The Kingsoft Office Suite holds the promise of bringing a near perfect clone of Microsoft Office to Linux desktop users. However, Kingsoft’s developers still have some work to do on the Linux Alpha release to make it a beta deal. Other than OpenOffice and LibreOffice, the Linux platform lacks any full-featured office suite. Both of these more in common with each other than distinguishing features. Both flip-flop in performance, depending on which Microsoft skill they attempt to emulate. Their user interface is strictly classic old school.
Kingsoft office current alpha release for linux is already so cool and usable that's why its too bad that they don't support open doc format. I like LibreOffice but hope they can finally totally get rid of java. Calligra is promising but its not there yet, and since I'm a KDE fan I would like to see it mature soon, not just Krita but words and sheets as well to the level of maturity of LibreOffice.
Kingsoft Office suite is also available in the Archlinux AUR.
I guess it's fine from the perspective of non-linux natives, Openoffice/Libreoffice does'nt have a high profile.
However, several gonvernments have chosen to use the open document format, and that might hurt them in the long run.
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New Linux Office Suite Too Soft to Be King
Posted by: Jack M. Germain March 27, 2014 02:48 PMThe Kingsoft Office Suite holds the promise of bringing a near perfect clone of Microsoft Office to Linux desktop users. However, Kingsoft’s developers still have some work to do on the Linux Alpha release to make it a beta deal. Other than OpenOffice and LibreOffice, the Linux platform lacks any full-featured office suite. Both of these more in common with each other than distinguishing features. Both flip-flop in performance, depending on which Microsoft skill they attempt to emulate. Their user interface is strictly classic old school.
I guess it's fine from the perspective of non-linux natives, Openoffice/Libreoffice does'nt have a high profile.
However, several gonvernments have chosen to use the open document format, and that might hurt them in the long run.