Microsoft removes cut and paste from Windows Phone 7 Series

Posted on 17 Mar 2010 at 10:46

Microsoft has decided to introduce a fairly heft limitation into Windows Phone 7 Series handsets: there will be no cut and paste. It's a limitation that hit the original iPhone, before Apple caved into pressure and released an update that enabled the feature.

Seemingly blind to the outpouring of annoyance at the original iPhone, Microsoft has decided that nobody wants to use cut and paste. It cited the operating system's built-in detection technology, which highlights phone numbers and email addresses for interaction, as proof that cut and paste would be redundant. Well, redundant so long as people only care about interacting with phone numbers and email addresses.

It seems like a crazy decision to us: why ape one of the worst aspects of the original iPhone?

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