The trouble, for many university students in Oman, rarely starts with the ideas. It often starts from mid-sentence. Switch from Arabic to English inside the same document, and the formatting comes apart — margins drift, text runs the wrong direction. It’s a micro problem, but a constant one, and that’s why a number of Omani students choose to download WPS Office. On July 28, a delegation of faculty and students from Oman’s University of Technology and Applied Sciences, known as UTAS, visited Kingsoft Office’s headquarters in Zhuhai. For some, it was their first trip to China. For others, it was something closer to a homecoming: they had used WPS Office for years and finally got to see the company behind it. Arabic-language support and right-to-left formatting are what firstly draw some students to WPS Office. What keeps them there, several said, is more basic — whether the tool helps them get an assignment done before deadline.
