WPS Office Outage: Kingsoft's Cloud-based Software Disruption Raises Censorship Concerns in China
WPS Office Suffers Major Outage
On Wednesday, WPS Office, a cloud-based office software suite from Kingsoft, experienced a prolonged outage affecting numerous users across China. As an alternative to Microsoft Office, WPS is crucial for many businesses, government departments, and telecommunications operators. Users reported difficulties like syncing, uploading documents, and network latency. The #WPSCollapse hashtag quickly trended on Weibo as complaints surged.
Kingsoft Responds to Disruption
At approximately 3:33 PM, Kingsoft declared via Weibo that the WPS service had resumed following
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