In April, Google released its Pinyin input method. Subsequently, insiders from Baidu revealed that Baidu was also developing its own input method program. As Baidu's largest rival in China, Tencent, should there be any movement on their part? Recently, there have been persistent rumors that Tencent is also developing its own input method. Today, on the morning of May 7th, reliable sources have confirmed that Tencent has indeed started research and development work on an input method, and it will be released by the end of 2007!
According to this unnamed Tencent R&D staff member,