According to Microsoft China, the company's Office 2010 software will be launched in the Chinese market on June 18, 2010, with the retail price of CNY398 for the family edition.

The Chinese software provider Kingsoft has confirmed that the company has acquired a full, new office building in Beijing for CNY175 million and the company will move to its new office in March 2009.

According to the Chinese office software provider Evermore Software, benefiting from Microsoft's "black desktop" situation, the download volume of the company's Office 2009 individual version has recently reached 5.3 million.

Commenting on the desktop anti-piracy measure recently launched by Microsoft (MSFT) in China, Kingsoft says that although they too are harmed by pirated software, China-based Kingsoft will not copy Microsoft's mode and promises to continue to offer free WPS Office software to individual users.

An internal email circulating at Microsoft (MSFT) states the company will launch strict anti-piracy measures in China from October 20, 2008 to fight pirated Windows XP Professional and Office software.

State Grid Corporation of China and Kingsoft have reached an agreement for the monolithic State Grid to purchase WPS Office 2007, a office software product from Kingsoft.

Microsoft (MSFT) is expanding the range of document formats supported in its Office productivity suite.