One of the World's leading IT company HP has chosen Next Office 8.1 as the best office suite for bundle with all HP notebooks, all HP-home and Compaq-home PCs in Hong Kong. This promotion will be starting in this April and including HP Pavilion and Compaq Presario notebook models. <HP ad 27-3-2003>

Next Software's Business Development Director, Mr Raymond Chan said: “HP is the world's leading IT company. The fact that HP selected Next Office among various competitors indicates that Next Office 8.1 has reached international quality standard and also proves that Next Office's functionality and user friendliness have out-performed all competitors.”

Next Software has a team of the best developers, specializing in Chinese computing. They use their expertise and specialty to improve the Chinese processing on OpenOffice. Next Office's latest release has xp look and feel, translation between Chinese Traditional and Chinese simplified on not only Word Processing, but also Presentation, Spreadsheet and Vector drawing applications.

To align with the HP promotion, Next Software has produced a TV commercial ad for broadcasting in Cable TV called
"What's Next?" TV ad

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