LautauMan you seem to be right.
Swype now seems to have customer unfriendly policies. How can they only offer to download the Beta, whilst acknowledging that, as any Beta, it does have bugs and issues !? ...At least, that's what I see on their website ; maybe because it's a new owner, and as you say, they want to get rid of the previous versions, but it seems absurd, so there must be some explanation, maybe "big money" behind it - maybe they don't have bought the right to use previous versions, but only the name and some other assets.
I have been trying Swype (3.26.92.38235) for only a few days now, and I can already say that I am impressed. I never thought I could type the longest French word "anticonstitutionnellement" (26 characters) so quickly - and without mistakes since the autocorrect works rather well. It seems that the "logical engine" of the software tolerates easily many approximative spellings, both in English, French, Italian and Spanish.
It's therefore a pity that I can't find Chinese Pinyin ! However, being a true beginner in Chinese, I can't say that speed really matters for the moment !
Anyhow, congratulations to Mike for the work done with Pleco during the last ten years. In my opinion, Pleco is the best !
I hope there will be a French version ! :mrgreen: