Free Kingsoft Writer Professional 2012! [24-hours only] (Updated: This is “Standard”)
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Software Description
The following is a description of Kingsoft Writer Professional 2012, as per the developer:
Kingsoft Writer Professional 2012 is dependable and fast word processing software that is highly compatible with Microsoft Word, and can read and edit DOC and DOCX formats. This allows you to freely transfer your office documents between Microsoft Word and Kingsoft Writer Professional.
Aside from the features present in word processor Writer Free 2012, such as an automatic spell check, a PDF converter, document encryption, and multiple tabs, Professional Writer 2012 contains many new additions, such as a new interface, a section tab, a paragraph adjustment tool, a table adjustment function, and a cover page setting.
Highly compatible with all Microsoft Word files:
- Kingsoft Writer Professional 2012 is highly compatible with all Microsoft Word files.
- Input file formats:(97/2000/2003/2007/2010) doc, dot and docx;
- Output file formats:(97/2000/2003) .doc and dot format.
dotTech Advice
Kingsoft Software is a fairly new company that has appeared on the scene offering a mix of freeware and shareware products. In this situation, the product in question is Kingsoft’s office suites. Kingsoft offers three office software: Kingsoft Office Suite Free (freeware), Kingsoft Office Suite Standard ($49.95), and Kingsoft Office Suite Professional ($69.95). Each of these office suites has a word processor (Writer), a spreadsheet program (Spreadsheets), and a PowerPoint presentation program (Presentations), with the features varying slightly between each version of the suite.
The program being offered for free in this article is Kingsoft Writer Professional, the Writer that usually comes bundled with Kingsoft Office Suite Professional. There are plenty of word processors out there, all of which serve well for basic word processing and Kingsoft Writer Professional is no different. The key to a word processor is seeing how compatible it is with Microsoft Word because, frankly speaking, Word dominates the world regardless of how many cheaper alternatives popup. I tested a few Word documents in Kingsoft Writer Professional and it does fairly well in reading and editing .DOC/.DOCX files. Take note, however, Kingsoft Writer Professional can read .DOCX but it can’t save as .DOCX — it can save as .DOC.
That said, if you are reading this then it is safe to assume you don’t have or want Microsoft Office. As such, you are looking for an alternative to Microsoft Office, Microsoft Word in particular. The million dollar question is which alternative office suite you should use. When asked this question I always recommend OpenOffice, an open source freeware office suite which has gained a lot of popularity in the past few years. OpenOffice is the best alternative to Microsoft naysayers; OpenOffice is stable, feature filled, works (generally) well with Microsoft Office files, and has significant public support with OpenOffice formats becoming the second most common formats after Microsoft Office. So as good as Kingsoft Writer Professional may be, it doesn’t really offer anything significant that OpenOffice Writer doesn’t already deliver (although it should be mentioned, Kingsoft Writer Professional does an excellent job in mimicking Microsoft Word’s look — you can use ribbons or traditional menus with Kingsoft Writer Professional). OpenOffice will always be the leading alternative to Microsoft Office. If you are looking for an alternative to Microsoft Word, you are more than welcome to give Kingsoft Writer Professional a try (Kingsoft Writer Professional is a very good word processor), but my suggestion would be give OpenOffice Writer a chance first.
Freebie Details
Update: The giveaway is of Kingsoft Writer Standard, not Kingsoft Writer Professional. My apologies, I didn’t even notice the mistake. Thank you Marc for the heads up.
Kingsoft Writer Professional 2012 is being given away by Daily Software Giveaway. The giveaway ends Thursday March 15, 2012 0400 Eastern Standard Time. There is no information if you can install or reinstall at a later date.
To get Kingsoft Writer Professional 2012 for free, do the following:
Version being given out for free:
Free updates: Unknown
Free technical support: Unknown
Download size: 46.7 MB
Supported OS: Windows 2000/XP/Vista/Win7
- Download this ZIP file. Extract the file after the download has finished.
- When you extract the files you will notice there is a kingsoft_ writer_pro_daily.exe file. Run that file (double left-click on it) to install Kingsoft Writer Professional 2012.
- After installation you are can start using Kingsoft Writer Professional 2012, there is no need to register it — it is “pre-registered”.
- Enjoy!
If you have trouble getting Kingsoft Writer Professional 2012 for free, post below and other dotTechies or I will try to help.
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I’m not comfortable with the EULA. After reading through all the jargon Kingsoft states they collect usage data for marketing purposes. I don’t want a sniffer program on my PC much less one accessing anything concerning my files. I’ll pass. Wish this was stated early on in the EULA instead of at the end.
Is anybody familiar with the EULA for the recommended suite SoftMaker?
@jivadas:
I should have added that SmartSuite has a compressed .rtf format; but the reulting size is still about twice the .odt–80KB versus 40KB. (These estimates are approximate, but representative).
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jd
@Dave:
Thanks for the tip Dave (post 22). SoftMaker is MUCH faster than O-O and looks very promising.
@Dave:
Softmaker/textmaker produces a .tmd format that cannot be downloaded without Textmaker installed in the receiving PC.
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jd
Ahhh, another one but not for my taste.
I used Open and Libre office, as well as Ms office 2007, all support Unicode Texts and their related fonts. I also write Urdu documents, in Open and MS Office it is supported very well, but not in Kingsoft :(
Thanks anyway :)
@jivadas:
Thats BS, jivadas!
Softmaker products are great and fully MS office compatible!
This includes the option to save (as) *.doc (in free v. 2008 not as *.docx AFAIK, that’s the advantage of the paid v. 2010)
hmmm so it was just the STANDARD version…. so Daily Software Giveaway team misled their readers, didn’t they??
Never mind….here you can find an incredible collection of great FREE Office Suites (Desktop & Portable Office Suites, Personal Finance Software etc…), which are far better than this freebie.
You can take your pick (I recommend SSuite Office – Premium HD, SSuite Office – Excalibur Release & Portable SSuite Office – BladeRunner):
http://www.ssuitesoft.com/software.htm#36278701
As simple Word Processor and text editor, go to SOFTPEDIA and search for:
- Rizonesoft Verbum
- Intellipad
And finally, to protect the copyright of your Office Documents just use the excellent freeware “Office OwnerGuard Personal”:
http://www.armjisoft.com/?page=officeownerguard
Enjoy!!
‘It is an ill wind that blows nobody, no good’
MS forced everybody to upgrade their .Doc versions of Office, to the .Docx version.
That forcing arose from users of the current Office, sending files as .docx
MS tardily,reluctantly, quietly made a converter available for those that did not want to be forced to upgrade.
But even that is not a simple Install.
If this offering can open .docx and then by default saves as .doc we should -
‘Come to praise them, not to bury them’
So for those that don’t like being forced to upgrade, or like to use Menus (shove the Ribbon), this could be worth having.
I tried SSuite and was very unimpressed. Softmaker/Auslogics and Kingsoft both worked much better for me. Of the huge slower packages, the IBM Lotus Symphony suite worked a bit better for me than OO or LO, but not well enough to make it my “go-to”.
Rob said: I’m not comfortable with the EULA. After reading through all the jargon Kingsoft states they collect usage data for marketing purposes. I don’t want a sniffer program on my PC much less one accessing anything concerning my files. I’ll pass.
That’s why Avast threw it in the sandbox…
@jivadas: That did it for me using Textmaker, guess its back to downloading Libra
With so many mature word processors around, free and not free, and nothing to distinguish this one, this product has no reason to exist. To put it differently, practically everyone who might consider Kingsoft Writer already has a word processor. This one makes no case for switching from whatever you already use.
@Finell: They may be mature, but that doesn’t mean that they are completely satisfactory or sufficient. I’ve been faced with a number of complex MSWord documents, either with complicated sectional structures, or fancy charts and graphs, or with embedded drawings, and I’ve very often found that OO and LO and (even) IBM Lotus Symphony have trouble displaying them properly, and even more trouble editing or reformating them.
Moreover, those of us who dislike MSOffice/Word partly because it’s so HUGE and slow-loading, won’t find much relief in any of those three, because they’re no smaller and quicker, at least on my reasonably capable (but not new or SOTA) machine.
I found the SoftMaker/Auslogics to be reasonable alternatives most of the time, but Kingsoft (free version) has worked better for me since I first tried it. That’s a pretty good trick, and worthy of my attention,even though I “already had a word processor”.
@ Giovanni
I must agree with you, their latest word processor WordGraph has certainly come of age. It is now fully complaint with any word processing needs that anyone might have. :)
http://www.ssuitesoft.com/wordgraph.htm
or
http://www.ssuitesoft.com/qtwriterexpress.htm
Their Premium HD office suite is also certainly the best looking of all the office suites. :D
http://www.ssuitesoft.com/ssuiteofficepremiumhd.htm
Thanks for the input!
GeeWiz