Office Suffers Major Outage, Disrupting Millions

WPS Office, a key Microsoft Office alternative in China, experienced hours-long downtime, affecting businesses and users nationwide.

Service was restored by 3 PM after emergency repairs, with a 15-day free membership offered as compensation.
The outage impacted over 600 million monthly active devices globally, causing significant work disruptions.
Kingsoft's stock dipped 1.28% following the incident, despite recent strong financial performance.
Similar outages have affected other major Chinese tech services like Alibaba Cloud and NetEase Cloud Music recently.
Kingsoft has faced past controversies, including allegations of state censorship and using customer documents for AI training.