Microsoft Pinyin IME

Microsoft Pinyin IME
A component of Microsoft Windows
Details
Type Input method
Included with Windows 95 OSR2 and later
Windows NT 4 and later
Office 97 and later

Microsoft Pinyin IME (Chinese: 微软拼音输入法; pinyin: wēiruǎn pīnyīn shūrùfǎ) is the pinyin input method implementation developed by Microsoft and Harbin Institute of Technology. It is bundled with Microsoft Windows and Chinese editions of Microsoft Office. Various versions can be downloaded from Microsoft's website with some restrictions.

History

The layout of the keyboard

Since Windows 95 OSR2, Simplified Chinese edition of Windows automatically installed the bundled Microsoft Pinyin IME. Windows 98 came with version 1.5. The Version 2.0 was released with Microsoft Office 2000 and bundled with Windows 2000.[1]

Windows XP and Microsoft Office XP came with Microsoft Pinyin IME 3.0.

Microsoft Pinyin IME 2003 was released with Office 2003. Microsoft Pinyin IME 2003 is later included in Windows Vista. Microsoft Pinyin IME (Ver: 10.1.7600.0) is included in Windows 7.

Microsoft Office Pinyin IME 2007 was released with Microsoft Office 2007. In 2008, Microsoft released a word list update for this version.[2]

Later versions of the IME came in number of different editions. Usually the Express/Select editions are smaller but feature only common functionalities and the standard word list.

Microsoft Office Pinyin IME 2007 is not supported by 64-bit versions of Windows.[3] The most recent version available for use on 64-bit systems is Microsoft Pinyin IME 4.0, however the final version of Microsoft Office Pinyin IME 2010 does feature full 64-bit support.

NameVersionIME version[4][5]Availability
1.0Windows 95 OSR2, Windows NT 4, Microsoft Office 97[1]
1.5Windows 98[1]
MS-PinYin982.07Windows 2000, Microsoft Office 2000[1]
Microsoft Pinyin IME 3.03.08Windows XP, Office XP
Microsoft Pinyin IME 20034.09-10Windows 7, Windows Vista, Office 2003
Microsoft Office Pinyin IME 200712Microsoft Office 2007
Microsoft Office Pinyin IME 201014Microsoft Office 2010, KB2719861 packages
Microsoft Pinyin SimpleFast 2012 w/ Harbin Institute of Technology15.0.9200.16384Windows 8

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "产品历程". Microsoft. Retrieved 2008-10-23.
  2. ↑ "微软拼音输入法2007词库升级服务(2008年3月版)". Microsoft. 2008-07-29.
  3. ↑ 下载详细信息： 微软拼音输入法2007
  4. ↑ "2007 Office Sample: MSIME.h Header File". Microsoft. 2007-09-26. Retrieved 2009-02-06.
  5. ↑ Microsoft Office IME 2002/2003/2007/2010 (Proofing Tools Kit) differences in CJK

See also

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