Windows Phone 7 Won't Have Copy & Paste [UPD]
Windows Phone 7 channels early iPhone OS features by completely omitting copy & paste functionality.
As slick of a device that the iPhone was and its lead on user-friendliness compared to other smartphones, the one poke at Apple's effort was the sore lack of copy & paste functionality.
Copy and pasting was a common function of nearly all other smartphones (and even some dumb ones), that it seemed very backwards of the iPhone to not have it until the feature arrived in the iPhone OS 3.0 update.
It's strange, then, to learn that Microsoft's upcoming big smartphone OS will be committing the same omission. At a Q&A session at MIX10, Microsoft said that clipboard operations won't be supported in Windows Phone 7.
Engadget confirmed again with Microsoft and reported: "Windows Phone 7 Series will not have copy and paste functionality. There is a data-detection service built into the text-handling API that will recognize phone numbers and addresses, but Microsoft says most users, including Office users, don't really need clipboard functionality."
We're still scratching our heads at Microsoft's decision to leave copy & paste out of Windows Phone 7.
UPDATE: Now it seems that Microsoft will be adding copy & paste functions into Windows Phone 7 at a later date via a software update. istartedsomething reports: "As it turns out, the development team actually knows exactly how they will be implementing copy & paste in WP7S but did not believe it could be implemented without affecting the release schedule they’ve committed too and therefore will be including it in an update down the road."
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People don't use it? Retarded corperation.
I think they have been food poisoned by eating too much apple
"a Data detection service oughta be enough for anyone"
I think some idiot at MS wanted the success of the iPhone so bad, that he decided they should just copy it straight off, flaws and all.
How about some product analyzing..?
Well, I guess my next smartphone will have an Android OS... thanks Microsoft for making my decision so easy.
They forget that this OS is the closest to a desktop OS that they series ever got. The appeal of this OS will attract different market segments, so their previous experience is useless.
Don't be dumb microsoft! If you take away features, there's always the people that will hack it into them! Look at Apple and their mistakes!
"the iPad/Phone/Touch sucks cuz it doesn't have (previously copy and paste) multitasking !!!!!" - chant heard by thousands of MS fanboys over the past months.
Look at Apple and their mistakes!
Being the number 1 phone company in the States ??
My 5 year old Ericsson K550i has both copy and paste functionality as well as phone number detection! And they can't get both? LOLLLLL
EPIC FAIL no2 (Apple still holds number 1)
Being the number 1 phone company in the States ??
They could be even bigger if people didn't have to jailbreak their phones to take full use of them. Their app store is a joke and their customer policy is to treat them like thieves.
No I'm sorry.. apple are still a greater fail/pain the backside than microsoft
Apple limit everything you can't/can have on an iphone etc...
This is hilarious!
apple got flamed for years over this....now that they do have cut and paste, now Micro$oft doesn't.
just hilarious!
Cant express my dissapointment enough. I was looking forward to telling my customers to buy this phone, now I have cancelled the mobile development project and will look else where for mobile solutions.
Wow. The lack of multi-tasking is fine with me really but no flash sucks and no copy and paste is just downright ridiculous. What next, no multimedia messaging?
Thanks but no thanks MS.
my Sony Ericsson Z310 can copy and paste phone numbers and emails... why microsoft why????
In other news, Windows Phone 7 developers say: "640K of memory should be enough for anybody."
I'm really hoping it's all a big joke being played by the king of all Trolls somewhere.
My Symbian based touch phone copies and pastes. I have to agree, though, that I rarely if ever use the feature. I do however disagree with that being the logic for omitting a feature.
You mean that M$ hasn't learned from Apple's entirely stupid mistakes?
Fail Microsoft...........
wrong wrong wrong! ballmer tried to pull a bill gates from the early 90's by copy/pasting apple's UI to windows. that's what it was. case closed. /sarcasm
Being the number 1 phone company in the States ??
LOL What? By what metric? Motorola has the largest market share of all phones. RIM has the biggest smart phone market share. Reality Distortion Field running at max.
I think these are mistakes by Microsoft, but it's good news for Android. Windows Phone 7 could have been competition for Android but with the news coming out lately it looks like Android isn't going have any competition at all.
i always used the copy and paste function. seems like a bad idea to me..
maybe apple has a silent patent on copy/paste on touch screen mobile devices and ms doesn't want to stir the pot.
LOL What? By what metric?
market share bud, it's losing some customers to Android, but is sitting at 63%
http://www.product-reviews.net/201 [...] o-android/
this just proves that sometimes(often?) intelligent people dont have much common sense.
number detection? how about if i wanted to copy something that they cant detect? like prices, or quotations or anything that i want.
just put the feature and let us decide whether we need it or not. really, how hard can it be to implement?
Hail the iPhone!!!
Is there some sort of technical difficulty with the addition of cut and paste?
Wow. Them Microsoft folks are making a bad move. A smart phone is a computer. A computer should be able to support swapping data between applications on some level or another for user-friendliness..
micro$uxx locked again in the apple copy / m$ paste "innovation" cycle?
The wintarded micro$uxx fankiddie herd used to collectively cry out loud about iphone lacking multitasking, and copy/paste... Finally, all those wonderful "features not bugs" made it to their favorite gamer/drm o$ supplier's castrated "next gen" phone flavor.
Time to celebrate...
I really don't need a windows 7 phone then.