E-Zone Magazine Vol. 503, April 3, 2008
"Retail price of USB thumb drive has a big cut recently. If you would like to best utilize the 4GB storage, you may want to consider NextOffice 9.2 USB Edition. The software comes with Email, dictionary, encrypted volume, backup, virus scanning, etc. and it is more than enough for average mobile users ..." (excerpted and translated from original Chinese article)

PC3 Magaine, Vol. 368, March 4, 2008
"DVD Slideshow Builder comes with very versatile functions that are suitable for home users who require intensive authoring of DVD(s) for wedding ceremonies, newly born ceremonies, birthday parties. Its user interface is user-friendly. Novice users should find no difficulty with it. Users can create a new slideshow by simply pressing a few buttons. When burning to DVD, I would suggest creating image files for previewing first before actual transferring them to DVD." (excerpted and translated from original Chinese article)

E-Zone Magazine Vol. 490, Jan. 3, 2008
"Email Marketer comes with concise yet powerful user interface - If your company needs to maintain good customer relationship with your clients, of course, continuous development is a must. Whenever new product or news is available, you can send updated information to your client with Email Marketer ... The price of Email Markter; has a very affordable price and it should be a good choice for promoting your business." (excerpted and translated from original Chinese article)

E-Zone Magazine Vol. 489, Dec. 27, 2007
"Many companies leverage email for broadcasting new product information and promotion. However, if a lot of recipients will be involved, manually sending email one by one will not be an easy task. Email Markter; from Well Develop provides a simple solution to this problem at a very affordable cost. Its major benefit is: an intuitive user interface ... makes it a perfect and cost effective email marketing and promotion tool for SMB." (excerpted and translated from original Chinese article)

PC3 Magazine Vol. 358, Dec. 25, 2007
"Designed for mass email broadcasting - sending newsletter, email promotion so easy! Today, many companies have already changed to send invoices, bills and statments in electionic format instead of hard copies to their customers. This approach is not only more environmental friendly but also more convenient to the target recipients. However, sending large amount of emails regularly is not an trivial task ... but with Email Markter; this can be very simple" (excerpted and translated from original Chinese article)

PC Weekly Magazine, Vol. 492, Dec. 20, 2007
"After trying the Photo Collage Studio? the author finds that its functions are very similar to that provided by those photo sticker machines commonly found in shopping malls. You can add personalized backgrounds, frames, stamp, captions, effects, etc to your photos and can even sketch your own graphics with the built-in magic editor to create elegant photo collages, letterheads, posters, calendars ... very interesting" (excerpted and translated from original Chinese article)

Hi-Tech Magazine, Vol. 479, Dec. 19, 2007
"Professional Output even for computer idiots - With Photo Collage Studio? even computer idiots can create professional looking greeting cards, posters, calenders... To those end users who are not familiar with the Photoshop, CorelDraw, Photo Collage Studio?is really fantastic ... the author likes the frame function of Photo Collage Studio very much because traditional output is sometimes quite boring... or you can output your photos as a calendar and share with your friends ..." (excerpted and translated from original Chinese article)

E-Zone Magazine, Vol. 487, Dec. 13, 2007
"Simple but effective - this software is targeting for. Operating Photo Collage Studio is very simple. Users can simply drag and drop the desired graphics or templates into the editing window. All professionally designed templates have reserved room for you to place your own photos. After inserting your own photo, you can easily customize its position, size, etc. to fine tuning the output without requirement intensive editing ... very convenient" (excerpted and translated from original Chinese article)

PC3 Magazine, Vol 256, Dec. 11, 2007
"Photo Collage Studio is a software for creating greeting cards and photo collages. You can easily add various frames, masks and effects to your photos to create professional looking collages. It is bundled with lots of templates for creating greeting cards, designed for various occasions, such as Christmas, New Year Festival, Valentine Day, Birthday, etc. You can easily apply the templates to your photos and add captions, graphics .. to create your unique personalized greeting card" (excerpted and translated from original Chinese article)

PC Market Magazine, Vol. 751, Dec. 10, 2007
"Photo Collage Studio is a very easy to use software that can create very good looking calendars, collages and greeting cards. Price is very affordable. It is bundled with lots of elegant templates with preset format for you to insert your own photos to create funny calendars, collages and greeting cards. Through the built-in printing and email mechanism, you can easily share your masterpieces with your friends ..." (excerpted and translated from original Chinese article)

E-Zone Magazine, 464, 5 July 2007
"Digital photography is increasingly popular and we are more eager to share our happy moment with our friends... Now you can make sure of DVD Slideshow Builder?to turn your photos into a slideshow video or create a DVD for sharing. You can add your own background music and transition effect to decorate your slideshow ... The software is easy to use even for computer novices" (Excerpted and translated from original article)

PC Weekly Magazine, Vol. 464, 7 June, 2007
"Those digital photos we took during our friends wedding banquet, for our children and during vacactions make up our precious memory. Did we ever think of turning these photos to beautiful slideshows. DVD Slideshow Builder is very easy to use and comes with lot of transition effects, cliparts and photo frames ... with it, even a computer novice can create professional slideshow in minutes" (Excerpted and translated from original article)

Hi-Tech Magazine Vol. 451, 6 June 2007
"Why choose DVD Slideshow Builder? Support of Chinese language is one major factor. Do you believe that by simply importing photos, music in order, you can create a slideshow that contains even up to thousand photos?... transition effects can be applied automatically and randomly to all photos ... idiot operation that requires no learning. How about the output quality? Quite impressive. If you are willing to spend more effort, you can create wonderful slideshows for even wedding banquets But the most touching things is that it supports output to 3GP and iPod formats. Imagine that you are show-offing the slideshows mixing of videos and photos of your newly born to your friends with your mobile phone or iPod ... not only you will feel proud of it, you friends could probably wonder how much effect you have spent on creating such professional slideshows!" (Excerpted and translated from Chinese original)

Sun Daily, 31 May 2007
"Everyone of us loves beautiful photos. But sometimes we shot too many and need plenty of time to tide up our collections. A software vendor has therefore released DVD Slideshow Builder to help us do the job ... It comes with more than a thousand cliparts, you can burn your photos into DVD or even output to iPod, MP4 or mobile phone format ... for conveniently sharing with your friends" (Excerpted and translated from Chinese original)

PC3 Magazine, Vol 328, 29 May 2007
We recommend DVD Slideshow Builder? "Very user friendly with plenty of templates for sharing your precious moment. Requires no learning and you can step by step on your own to create a professional slideshow. If you want to know more of the software, you can make use of computer based learning CD that comes with the software. There are more than a thousand types of transition effects, cliparts and templates, you can fully explore your own creativity ... also comes with simple functions to help to your fix the defects of you photos. (Excerpted and translated from Chinese original)

PC Market Magazine, Vol 721, 25 May 2007
We recommend DVD Slideshow Builder?- "Its operation is very simple. Just follow the instructions step by step and you can create a slideshow or CD. If you are computer novice, you can learn detail with the 30 minutes computer based training that comes with the software. Transition effects are the major selling points of this software. Many professional effects are included, such as Pan/Zoom, cliparts ... to help you explore your own creativity ... In conclusion: Plenty of transition effects with built-in photo editing capability - very solid and useful" (Excerpted and translated from Chinese original)

CAPITAL Magazine Vol 79, 24 May 2007
"Warm slideshows with touching music. DIY your DVD Slideshow Builder?- Documentaries of your own child development, your oversea journey during a vacation or even daily life moments, a slideshow created by DVD Slideshow Builder is definitly more impressive than static photos .. It supports many different types of images, video and music formats and comes with up to thousand transition effects, cliparts .. Even if you have no experience on DV, through it simple user interface, you can mix music with your photos to create touching stories" (Excerpted and translated from Chinese original)

Computer Today (Magazine) Vol.98, 16 Jan 2007
NextSpeak - English TTS; is your good teacher outside classroom ... Other than classroom learning, more listening and speaking in daily life can help improve our English. Our students are quite good at writing and reading but their oral skill is usually a weakness .. that may because the lacking of proper practicing environment. This software provides great flexibility in learning English ... anytime anywhere

E-Zone (Magazine) Vol.435, 15 Dec 2006
"NextPDF v2; is an affordable output to PDF solution - Exchanging documents in <MS Word> format can cause the look and feel difference because the lacking of the right fonts in the recipient's platform or difference between application versions. Converting to PDF is therefore a more common practice but usually requires thousand dollars investment in Acrobat ... For general office users, NextPDF v2; is a good alternative"

Hi-Tech (Magazine) Vol.426, 14 Dec 2006
"NextSpeak - English TTS; - If you can still recall the impression of Professor Hawkins speech when he visited Hong Kong, you probably know how well the NextSpeak - English TTS; speech synthesis technology resembles human speaking in vary aspects such as intonation, pronunciation and fluency ... NextSpeak - English TTS; definitely can help improve our English speaking."

PC3 (Magazine) Vol.304, 12 Dec 2006
Release NextPDF - PDF format makes cross platform sharing of documents becomes realistic and solves many WYSIWYG problems caused by missing fonts and version difference. There exists many tools in Internet to convert Word, Excel into PDF but they usually provide little support to Chinese. NextPDF Professional Edition support Chinese and functions such as password encryption, text watermarking, output size selection. (Abstracted and translated from Chinese)

Capital Weekly (Magazine) Vol.054, 6 Dec 2006
"The newly released NextSpeak - English TTS; allows you to better utilize your traveling time to listen and practice your English. You can select your interested content and turn them into MP3 format ... NextSpeak - English TTS; integrates the most advanced voice synthesis TTS engine from NeoSpeech ... The quality of NeoSpeech voice engine is well recognized as the best of the world ... even Professional Hawkins chose NeoSpeech.

PC Market (Magazine) Vol.695, 21 Nov 2006
"If you want to spend 15 minutes a day to improve your English, other than using existing multimedia training material in the market, did you ever think of using your iPod, MP3 player or even mobile phone? In fact, you may come up spending less ... NextSpeak - English TTS; is targeted for self learning. Other than turning text to speech, it can output into MP3 format and download them to your MP3 portable players ... you can easily practice your English anytime anywhere"

PC3 (Magazine) Vol.301, 21 Nov 2006
"It is difficult for us to escape from our busy lifes and sit down to learning something. Traditional English learning requires lots of classroom training instead of self-paced home learning. In fact you can sit down comfortably at home and use the latest computing technology to improve your listening and oral skill ... NextSpeak - English TTS; can turn text to speech and save the output as MP3 format so that you can repeatedly practice them yourself at your leisure time ... It is really 'learning English anytime anywhere' "

PC Market (Magazine) Vol.687, 26 Sep 2006
"NextOffice 9.1 first releases version supporting Vista - Compatibility to MS Office is usually a prior consideration for end users. New version has many improvement in compatibility..."

E-Zone (Magazine) Vol.423, 21 Sep 2006
Free upgrade to version NextOffice 9.1 is provided to NextOffice 9.0 Professional users. This shows the company is quite considerate to her existing users. The company is keeping up with Vista while still retaining its support to old version OS such as Win98. That is particular important to SME who many are still operating their PC in old platforms.

PC3 (Magazine) Vol.292, 19 Sep 2006
The "output to PDF" function of NextOffice is quite special and useful to commerical users. In addition, it provides value added service .... such as 90 days free hotline support and email support.

e-Campus (Magazine)Vol.94, Aug 2006
"NextSpeak - Mandarin TTS; allows you practice Mandarin speaking anywhere anytime - Other than general Text-to-Speech function, it can output as MP3 format. User are no longer bound to classroom or computer and can practice anywhere anytime. It is very convenient tool for self paced improvement"

PC-weekly (Magazine) Vol.416, 6 July 2006
"Able to master Mandarin is essential in daily communication with our colleagues in China. Well Develop captures this requirement and turns it to NextSpeak - Mandarin TTS. NextSpeak - Mandarin TTS is a self learning tool for Mandarin and integrates with most advanced TTS engine from NeoSppech. In addition to converting Mandarin text to speech , it has library management functions and can output the text as MP3 format. It is a very good Mandarin self learning tool."

E-Zone (Magazine), Vol.413, 14 July 2006
"There are many Mandarin classes available in market but working labour find it difficult to spare regular hours to attend these classes. Therefore, software like NextSpeak - Mandarin TTS, which can turn text to MP3, is designed to bridge this gap. Users are no longer restrict to regular classrooms. Self learning of Mandarin in any place any time becomes very effective..."

Hi-Tech (Magazine), Vol.403, 6 July 2006
"Surfing Internet and listening to books via NextSpeak - Mandarin TTS; .... Many users were hesitated about the quality of Text-To-Speech. No long before, renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking had presented a speech using the NeoSpeech's voice synthesis engine. NextSpeak - Mandarin TTS; is using the same voice synthesis engine. For those who are still impressed by the voice synthesis quality of Dr. Hawking's speech, they should have no doubt on the fluency and quality of NextSpeak - Mandarin TTS;"

PC3 (Magazine), Vol.280, 27 June 2006
"Metropolitan are living a busy life style: long working hours and pressure to continuously upgrading themselves. Particularly in an international city, like Hong Kong, not only fluent English is mandatory, the ability to master Mandarin is also essential. NextSpeak - Mandarin TTS; allows you to take your leisure time to upgrade your Mandarin listening and speaking capability. The software is designed for self-learning and able to turn Chinese text into MP3."

PC Market (Magazine), Vol.674, 27 June 2006
"I remember my teacher used to tell us: if you want to master a language, the best way is to listen more, read more, write more. For reading and writing, the most simply way maybe is reading newspapers and magazine. Through which we can grasp the most updated information and their writing skill is usually high. But what about listening? NextSpeak - Mandarin TTS; can bridge this gap. Not only it can turn text to voice, it can output the voice as MP3 for repeatedly listening in anywhere anytime."

Oriental Daily (Newspaper) 15 June 2006
"NextSpeak - Mandarin TTS; helps improving yourself. Nowadays, everyone talks about self improvement to avoid being kicked out of the job market. One of the most practical ways is to learn English or Mandarin to enable you to communicate more efficiently with people from other countries and indirectly open more career opportunities for yourself ... In fact, you don't necessarily have to attend courses, software like NextSpeak - Mandarin TTS; helps to improve yourself anywhere anyplace."

PC3 ( Magazine), Vol. 270, April 18, 2006
"Multi-functions office suite, NextOffice 9, achieves high compatibility - Many PC has already installed Office. But each copy costs around HKD2,000 and likely not all PC are with Office, particularly for those PC shared by public. Therefore, office suite in a USB drive can guarantee your important documents are always accessible to you".

CAPITAL ( Magazine), Vol. 227, April 2006
"NextOffice has cumulated 200,000 copies sold within 3 years - an amazing achievement. ... Many large corporation are now using NextOffice, including many prominent toys manufacturers with production plants in PRC, such as Blue Box Holdings, Herald Metal, Tin's Toys, Red Box Toy, Wynnewood... One of famous fashion brand Veeko has also chosen to use NextOffice volume license for their China and Hong Kong office".

Hi-Tech ( Magazine), Vol 390, 6 April 2006
"Conclusion: the author has tested NextOffice by trying different included applications and has very good experience. This proves NextOffice is highly compatible with Office. As NextOffice is being priced much lower than the main stream MS Office, it is really a good alternative to personal users and SME users".

The Sun (Newspaper) 6 April 2006
"Speaking of the functions, the software (Nextoffice USB Edition) not only includes text processing functions, it contains also an email application, you can use it to access your emails through others' computers without risking of your privacy. Secured data volume, backup utility and virus scanner together make your data in your USB drive more secure".

e-Zone (Magazine), Vol 398, 31 May 2006
"... <NextOffice 9 USB Edition> is such an application suite. Users can install it in their own USB Thumb Drive and directly plug and run the word processor, spreadsheet, presentation applications .... additional functions: data encrpytion, backup and virus scanning making it very versatile... Yourpersonal data, program and configuration settings are stored in the USB Thumb Drive ... allowing you to use your familiar programs in different PC while ensuring your document and data security".

e-Zone (Magazine), Vol 398, 31 May 2006
"A office suite applications normally include text processor, spreadsheet and presentation application. Sometimes it is not easy to justify if the investment is thousands of dollars. <NextOffice 9 Professional Edition> not only include normal office suite function, it has functions like Chinese Traditional/Simplified conversion, CJK user interface toggling, multi-lingual dictionary ... no matter you are a personal user or SME user, NextOffice is surely a good choice".

PC Market (Magazine) Vol. 660, March 21, 2006

"The USB Edition includes Word Processor, Spreadsheet, Presentation
application; newly add functions include email, secured data volume management, backup and restore utility and virus scanning tool ... No matter where you are, with NextOffice USB Edition, you can always use your own email program to send email and no need to worry about leaking your sensitive information even if you lose the USB thumb drive"

Hong Kong Economic Times, 30 Nov 2005
"... Do you want to use your money to the best? NextOffice 9 is quite a good choice... after some years, NextOffice has gained a certain marketshare of office-suite users. Many SME companies, in both Hong Kong and The Mainland, have adopted NextOffice after evaluating NextOffice. These companies includes industries in Toy, Garment Manufacturers, Hardware Manufacturers, Equipment Manufacturers, Trading and Tourism... over 2,000 such companies."

PC Home (Taiwanese Magazine), Vol 118, 1 Nov 2005
"Did you think about putting software into your pocket? Impossible? What we introduce below is Pocket NextOffice which contains the office-suite in an USB. It thus allows you to carry it everyday. Though the office-suite is of mini size, yet its functions are complete, including modules similar to Word, Excel PowerPoint...etc. It can open and save in Microsoft documents as mentioned above. More important, its operations are almost same as those of MS Office and save user the effort of re-learning!"

Hi-TECH, Vol 367, 27 Oct 2005
"... Although NextPDF has many functions and features, yet it is unexpectedly easy to use. The writer can easily use the software application and output documents into PDF formats without the need to look into User Guide. Nowadays ease-of-use is very important. In conclusion, application software must meet buyers' requirements of sufficient functions and features, easy to use and cost effective. NextPDF meets the first two requirements. As NextPDF is sold at HK$230 per license, it should be economical for any company!"

East Touch, Vol 43, 13 Oct 2005
"... The Pocket NextOffice from Well Develop is quite special because it is not just an USB. It contains programs similar to Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Draw. Even when you use a computer which does not have such programs, you can still open and save your documents. The Pocket NextOffice has 110 MB available space, enough for an user's day to day usage."

Hi-TECH, Vol 365, 13 Oct 2005
"Currently most Notebooks do not have Microsoft Office as bundled sales. Pocket NextOffice nicely fits into this user need. In view of its hot-swap User Interfaces of Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, English, it becomes obvious that Pocket NextOffice also wants the China marketplace... to frequent travelers, this product is handy. For just HK$270, one gets both an USB and the office-suite, so one really gets the best value for money."

PC Market, Vol 637, 11 Oct 2005
"Pocket NextOffice does not need to be installed. So it won't leave any trace on a computer, and it means you don't need to un-install the software. Pocket NextOffice is small in size and takes 130 MB space. Therefore it leaves you 110 available space for your documents in a 256MB USB."

e-Zone, Vol 373, 7 Oct 2005
"Office in your pocket - Not every computer have programs such as MS Office, even in schools or companies. Recently NextOffice puts its application into an USB Thumb Drive. User only plugs it into a computer, and can then use applications , and . Although half of the space of a 256 MB USB has been taken, yet user still have 100MB available space for its daily document storage."

Oriental Daily, 8 Oct 2005
"Maybe some users finds it not difficult to install software. One needs only execute Install, then press Next, Next, Next. However, some unexpected obstacles can occur during installation, thus making installation unsuccessful. This problem will not happen for Pocket NextOffice because the application software is already stored in the USB. Simply one Click and an user can open documents no matter where she/she goes."

Oriental Daily 19 May 2005
"Since the launch of NextOffice in 2003, users of NextOffice has reached over 100,000, becoming a formidable contender to Microsoft. The newly released 9.0 Edition comes with many added features and more powerful, with over 90% compatibility to MS Office. Together with its cost-effective price, NextOffice 9.0 is the best choice among all office-suites."

PC Market,Vol 616, 17 May 2005
"For those who are familiar with software and free-ware, their remarks on NextOffice tend to be that NextOffice just put together some open source applications. From our assessment, these are not fair comments to NextOffice. For those who have used NextOffice, they tend to agree that these applications are integrated together after careful thoughts and considerations. An office looks for productivity. Good integration facilitates better operations, thus increasing productivity. In view of the price of NextOffice, its functions and its stability, NextOffice 9.0 is certainly worthy to be recommended to readers." NextOffice was awarded "IT Award 2005 PC Market Editor's Choice" from PC Market

e-Zone,Vol 352, 13 May 2005
"Microsoft is a household name in IT industry. Though its leadership in office suite is as yet ir-replaceable, Microsoft sets the price of MS Office quite high, thus causing difficulties to SME companies. In fact, many SME just need to do basic functions as far as office clerical work is concerned and the cost-effective NextOffice is very enough. The new edition NextOffice 9.0 has more added practical features." NextOffice 9 was awarded 5 points (5 points being full mark from e-Zone)

Hi-TECH,Vol 343 10 May 2005
"NextOffice 9.0 has enhanced functions such as Barcode Generation, Screen Motion Capturing functions . It is much more compatible to MS Office, with better conversion between Chinese Traditional and Simplified, NextMail email capability, support digital signatures to enhance document security... Other functions such as Next PDF Writer, 20 types of Chinese fonts..."

PC Weekly, Vol 355, 6 May 2005
"NextOffice 9.0 has no issue at all in opening and in editing most people's documents originally created from MS Office... Its user interface looks almost the same as Office XP... its Barcode Generator is very powerful... its NextMail email has Chinese Traditional and Simplified conversion providing quick and easy translations for users... the 20 fonts in NextOffice consists of Mandarin Pinyin, saving user the money and the trouble of installing another software on top of MS Word..." NextOffice was awarded both 8.5 points from a 10 point basis, and the 'PC weekly Recommend' Award".

Oriental Daily 2 April 2005
"*NextOffice 8.3 comes with even more practical functions* - when looking for a cost-effective office suite, try NextOffice. Other than Dictionary and Text-to-Speech, NextOffice 8.3 has 3 added functions, namely Barcode Generator which supports EAN-13, EAN-8, UPC-A and UPC-C for companys' inventory management and asset management; Screen Motion Capturing Tool takes in every screen changes, supports Intel IndeoR Codec etc. and then records movements into video file; Voice Editing Tool has complete features such as adjusting volume, editing , Fade in, Fade Out, file format conversions for WAV, MP3, OGG etc. With so many functions in NextOffice, it saves you money for buying several software - worth for you to consider."

e-Zone, Vol 322, 15 Oct 2004
Introduce NextOffice with Barcode Add-in 2.0 which acts in concert with ERP systems in inventory management and retail systems. The Add-in can be downloaded from http://www.nextoffice.net/eng/download6.php ¡C

PC Weekly, Vol 321, 9 Sep 2004
Apart from MS Office, NextOffice ranks the top among all office suites based on Open Source. An office suite, which offers the best value-for-money, which possesses quality and down-to-earth functions, which is highly compatible to MS Office, which is stable with good support services, is a necessity for any SME company. Well develop, though being just established in a few years, firmly believes that its own product NextOffice gives the best in terms of office-suite to SMEs. The fact is that sales and market acceptance of NextOffice are growing, providing the best office-suite in price performance to the Greater China marketplace.

PC market,Vol 565, 25 May 2004
"The ultimate beneficiary of any advance and improvements of software is the end-user. The newly released NextOffice 8.3 has 3 added features: Barcode Generating, Screen Capture and Voice Editing. These 3 features are specially suitable for SME companies as they are easy to use, thus making office work more efficient."

e-Zone Vol 301, 20 May 2004
"The features in NextOffice are really so many that they cannot be fully stated here. Moreover the practicality of each feature module is very high. For choosing office suite in daily operation, NextOffice is the best choice.... In summary, NextOffice truly give users the best-value-for-money..."

e-Zone Vol 300, 14 May 2004
Awarded the Top 1 Best seller in OS & Office Tools
"A normal office worker usually uses word processing, spreadsheet, presentation of office suite application. To spend several thousand dollars (HK$) for an office-suite is dearly no matter how one looks at it. Next office Professional Edition not only has all the above mentioned features, but also 18 sets of Chinese Fonts, plus many other added features; and in Version 8.3, Barcode Generating, Screen Capture and Voice Editing are added in. In NextOffice PLUS Edition, "Mastering NextOffice, Next IntelliForm are included on top of all the functions in NextOffice Professional Edition.

PC Weekly, Vol 297, 13 May 2004
Awarded "PC Weekly Recommend" Product from PC Weekly Issue 304
"NextOffice obviously follow the behavior inertia of users to implement the XP look-and-feel interface. Other features are: Barcode Generating, Screen Capture and Voice Editing, unique Batch Conversion of documents to PDF. So, compared to the traditional Office suite, NextOffice has much more functions. To quote more, Formula Editor, Text-to-Speech, Voice Dictionaries are all very useful to SME companies as well as schools."

Hi-Tech, Vol 291, 11 May 2004
"Quick, easy and accurate in making Barcode - For production and logistics personnel, NextOffice is easy and simple for generating Barcode on labels via printer, if the labels are not in mass... Next Studio is another feature in NextOffice that is easy to use for capturing screens. For Voice Editing, it has so many functions that looks a bit not so easy-to-use relative to the functions just mentioned."

e-Zone, Vol 290 , Mar 2004
Technical writer of e-Zone demonstrates the powerful capabilities of Next Draw with concrete examples. Her conclusion is: the functions of Next Draw are so powerful that users of Next Draw will only be limited by their imagination ...

Oriental Daily News (Newspaper) 18 Dec 2003
"When talking about word processing, people will think of Microsoft Office. In fact there are quite a few alternatives with close consideration to users of some sectors, maybe even better than Microsoft in meeting their needs. One of these alternative is NextOffice."

The Sun (Newspaper) 04 Dec 2003
"Quite a number of users like to find software that are not yet the main stream which are much cheaper in price and yet functionalities are about the same as the main stream. Word processing software is such an example. Though based on OpenOffice, NextOffice 8, the latest version, has functionalizes more or less same as Microsoft Office but at an affordable price. NextOffice 8 surely suits both SME and home users."

Hi-Tech, Vol 267, Nov 2003
NextOffice 8+ not only has user-interface similar to the xp look-and-feel of MS Office, but also includes 'Mastering NextOffice' which is a four-and-a-half hour self learning course with FLASH and voice explanation. This makes users quickly familiar with the operation of NextOffice. Besides, it also includes value-added functions for SME such as the 'Mail-merge mass-fax'. When used under Windows xp platform, 'Mail-merge mass-fax' saves users the need to buy extra applications of fax agents such as WinFax or FaxMaker... For SME day-to-day usage , NextOffice 8+ has broader functionalities. If you want to not use MS Office, StarSuite is a good choice for personal use; but for SME, NextOffice 8+ gives users the benefits of both low price and high effectiveness in features/functionalities."

e-Zone Vol 269,Oct 2003
" ... NextOffice Christian Pack comes with a digital verison of"Easy-Page. The content of "Easy-Page"include Chinese and English Bible, genealogy, the histories of the new and old testament in table form, historical maps, tracks of Jesus and Paul. Besides, there are over forty church letter templates and thirty church presentation templates specailly designed for religion education for download and use in newly launched NextOffice 8."

e-Zone Vol 266, Sep 2003
"In conclusion, as to specially designed office suite for school teachers, Next Campus101 is the best. The number one advantage is Next Campus101 are bundled with large quantity of clipart and presentation templates. Using these facilities saves teachers a lot of time to efficiently prepare lessons, and to come up with professional teaching materials, and so making students focus on learning at class, and gaining respect from principals."

East Touch 433, Sep 2003
The newly released NextOffice 8.2 is originated from the latest OpenOffice. It includes Word Processing, Spreadsheet, Presentation and Vector Drawing and all these applications are compatible to MS Office. It also provides modules like HTML Editor, Math Formula Editor, PDF Writer. But NextOffice is very cost effective, and so it is the best choice for personal use or SME use.

PC Market 528, Sep 2003
Under Windows platforms, NextOffice has proven to be more stable than OpenOffice. It includes Word Processing, Spreadsheet, Presentation and Vector Drawing and all these applications are compatible to MS Office, i.e., it can open and save in MS Office formats such as .doc, .xls, .ppt... etc.

The Sun ( Newspaper ) 04 Sep 2003
As to office-suite, naturally one tends to recall the giant corporate, but its drawback is its expensive price, almost same as your PC hardware. From users point of view, the features and functionalities of NextOffice 8.2 are close to this office-suite from the giant corporate, maybe even more suitable to you, and it is a lot less expensive.

PC POWER Weekly Vol 017, Aug 2003
Functions that Open Office, KaiOffice or Star Suite have, NextOffice also has; but what NextOffice has, others may not have. NextOffice has a lot more functions than the 3 others including: online collaboration, Chinese punctuation input, mail-merge E-mail/fax. In additional, it is bundled with 18 Chinese TrueType fonts which you will not find in MS Office. Also, NextOffice has spent some effort to improve the user interface to make it more elegrant.

Hi-Tech Weekly Vol 253, Aug 2003
NextOffice 8.2 has injected new functions around Text-To-Speech, web marketing and office automation making version 8.2 more suitable for SME.

Computer Today Vol 158, Aug 2003
The new version "NextOffice 8.2" will be launched in August. Its functions are richer and more powerful than MS Office xp... "NextOffice" has been widely accepted by end-users so far. Currently Next Software has further improved the stability and compatibility of its office-suite in this new version "NextOffice 8.2 Professional Edition", making it even more versatile.

Hi-Tech Weekly (Computer Magazine) Vol 249, July 2003.
You sometimes may need to exchange documents with your colleagues or counter-parts in The PRC. You may be relying on MS Office to convert the content between Chinese Traditional and Chinese Simplified. Now with the "Chinese Conversion" function built-in the NextOffice 8.1, you can even convert the content in spreadsheet, presentation, drawing.... not just in word documents. In additional, NextOffice comes with Text-to-Speech capability that works in all modules such as word processing, spreadsheet, presentation...¡C

PC3 Magazine Vol 125, July 2003
"As a teacher, using Next Campus to produce your teaching materials not only makes your delivery more interesting but also saves you a lot of efforts. Your students will also find your delivery more interesting."

e-Campus Vol 59, June 2003
"Next Campus Released ... Next User Group Chairman, Mr. Kenneth Tam, talks about their plans ... Next Software announces Next Campus Summer Pilot School Programme. "

e-Zone Magazine Vol 249, May 20, 2003
"As a student or an executive, you will find the Voice Dictionaries most practical and useful. Such a similar dictionary in the market usually costs you several hundred dollars in retail price. So as far as value-for-money is concerned, 'NextOffice 8' is really very attractive". Testing conducted by e-Zone have concluded that 'NextOffice 8' is most compatible with MS Office among all office-suite applications.

e-Campus Issue 58 Vol 58, May 2003
"... User-interface of 'NextOffice' gives users xp look and feel; multilingual voice enabled dictionaries; text-to-speech in modules of word processing, spreadsheet, presentation; and vector drawing functions; enhanced drawing templates..."

Computer Today Magazine, Vol 153, March 2003
"NextOffice mainly include 4 core applications: Word Processing, Spreadsheet, Presentation and Vector Drawing. These functions can satisfied the needs of most SME."

e-Zone Magazine, Vol 237, 25-Feb-2003
"Compare with the under-development¡mMS Office 11¡n, ¡mNextOffice 8¡nhas already adopted the XML format. Users can leverage the XML format to easily integrate with XML databases."

e-Zone Magazine, Vol 233, 25-Jan-2003
"NextOffice 8 is the first to support XML format in office suite application."