Kingsoft

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Kingsoft (Chinese: 金山軟件) (SEHK: 3888) is a software company located in China. Its applications are WPS Office, PowerWord (金山詞霸, a Chinese/English/Japanese dictionary software), etc.

It states: "We are a leading online game and applications software developer and distributor in China. We offer a portfolio of online games, information security software, including anti-virus, anti-spy and firewall software, utility products, including dictionary, translation and other consumer software, and office applications software, including word processing, spreadsheet and presentation software, substantially all of which were developed by our in-house development teams."

It is listed in the Hong Kong Stock Exchange since 2007.

[edit] Controversy

In 2007, Kingsoft translation software was blamed by a furniture company for a racial slur printed on the label of a couch.[1] When the Chinese characters for "dark brown" (simplified: 黑褐, pinyin: hei1 he4) are typed into a version of Kingsoft's Chinese-English translation software, it produces, among other translations, the words "nigger brown".[2]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Chinese translation error blamed for slur on sofa label. CNN. Retrieved on 2007-04-20.
  2. ^ Offensive furniture label traced to China firm

[edit] External links

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