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> No equivalent to Windows/Office for enterprise (yet)

Chinese govn't has been using Linux based OS exclusively with WPS Office[1] (co-founded by Xiaomi's Leijun in the 90s)

Private sector use Win+Office though. But tech companies all choose Web based office like Feishu. docx/xlsx/pptx were just for compatibility only and interop with customers. Windows was like a Browser launcher anyway.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WPS_Office

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If anything, we should send them more Office licenses to slow them down. If they start putting things in wikis we’ll never catch up.

It has already been done this way.

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-apr-09-fi-micro...

In China, WPS has a longer history than Office. The first release of WPS, as a Chinese word processing software, was released in 1989. It wasn't until 1996 when Microsoft reached a format-sharing agreement with Kingsoft that Office entered the Chinese market. After Microsoft tolerated piracy, Office's usage surpassed WPS.

I don't know how it's evolved since, but yeah, WPS was an almost perfect clone of Office a decade or so ago. I could help Chinese students use it because everything was so similar that the UI was usable without knowing Chinese if you knew Office already.

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