In April, Microsoft China launched the Bing Input Method, which integrates the Bing search experience and retains the technical advantages of the Yingku Pinyin Input Method in areas such as natural language processing, Chinese computing, search engines, machine translation, web data mining, and machine learning.
Today, the Bing Input Method has been updated to version 1.1.146, fixing issues present in previous versions, improving stability, and optimizing performance. The Bing Input Method supports Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8 desktop mode, including both 32-bit and 64-bit versions. It is ad-free, plugin-free, and lightweight (26.3MB).
Official Download (29.38MB): http://download.get.live.cn/components/pinyin/BingPinyinSetup_1.1.146.02.exe
Key Features of the Bing Input Method:
- **Innovative Chinese Engine**: A powerful and stable Chinese input engine that leverages innovative research results from Microsoft Research Asia. It provides more accurate and intelligent word combinations, new and trending words, as well as mixed Chinese-English input.
- **English Assistant**: Makes English input easier with options for phonetically similar words, visually similar words, and pinyin-to-word conversions. With a bilingual dictionary containing over 400,000 entries, your typing becomes more flexible.
- **Multimedia Input**: Want to search online or input multimedia files? No need to copy and paste—just press the V key! The Bing Input Method allows you to achieve this with one click.
- **Open Application Platform**: Want more skins and extended applications? Click to download and install with one click! You can also create your own personalized skins or extensions.