No Cut and Paste for Windows Phone 7 Until Next Year
Given the bitching outcry over Apple’s (AAPL) decision to exclude cut-and-paste functionality from the first versions of iOS, it’s hard to imagine any company launching a new mobile OS would take a similar tack. Yet that’s exactly what Microsoft has done with Windows Phone 7, which will arrive at market next month without that feature.
Odd, considering Windows Mobile has supported cut and paste for so long that you’d think Microsoft would have to include it in WinPhoSev’s first-generation release.
But no.
Evidently, Microsoft (MSFT) doesn’t feel there’s an immediate need for clipboard operations in WP7–at least at launch. But it does plan to add it in the near future–“by early 2011.”
In the meantime, I imagine the editing of documents in the operating system’s Office Hub is going to be a bit lacking unless you’ve got a photographic memory.