It’s become typical to prepare at least as much money for Windows and Office as for the actual new office PC when buying one. These costs have gone a bit out of hand, especially in our shaky economic environment, which has caused an expansion in applications and internet services offering (some of) the functionality of the benchmark Microsoft Office suite. We’ve already reviewed some of them, and one of the latest additions to the fold is Office Suite 2012, made by the Chinese Kingsoft. According to the latter company, Office Suite has been present on the market for more than 20 years already, but we can’t say we’ve noticed its rise in the overall market share (except maybe in China).

All applications save data into binary files in predefined way and order and those predefined ordered files, because of that, have characteristic file format. In purpose of easier identification, ever since DOS days, name of the file has additional three characters called file extension. In the beginning, text files were mostly saved in pure text format with DOC extension, which represented first three characters of the word document.