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Windows Phone OS will not have cut and paste
WHILE MICROSOFT'S Windows Phone 7 Series is being touted as the best thing since sliced bread, reviewers are starting to find holes in it.
Engadget has just noticed that the next Microsoft mobile phone OS will not do cut and paste, something that is fairly vital for a hack in a hurry.
Apparently the Vole just happened to mentioned in a question and answer session that clipboard operations won't be supported on Windows Phone 7 Series.
Given that Windows Mobile has had those particular functions for years, it seems odd that the Vole is pulling the plug on them.
But it seems that Microsoft thinks that copying anything between applications is something that the great unwashed don't want.
Apparently there is a data-detection service built into the text-handling API that will recognise phone numbers and addresses, so what more could anyone want?
Given the outcry from Iphone users about the lack of such basic functionality until Jobs' Mob added it in the Iphone 3.0 update, it seems very short sighted for its Volish rivals to make exactly the same gaff.
However it might have something to do with the amount of space the clipboard area takes up in the memory and the resulting knock-on effect on battery life. µ
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It is not planned for the release launch, but is part of the platform.
There is a lot of bad information people are clinging to.
1) Mass storage - Up to OEMs and Phone providers
2) Copy Paste - Not at launch, but soon after.
3) Flash - Not at launch, but soon after.
4) Browser version - Initially IE 7.5 hybrid - will change after launch.
5) Marketplace Only - ONLY for applications that want to be distributed and approved by Microsoft - they can be free, they just need quality testing. Anyone can install ANY application they develop or distribute like a company application for example. Look at the development tools, they include independant non-marketplace loaders for applications.
(Just like the ZuneHD, you can load any applications without jailbreaking.)
Why are these facts so hard for people, especially on a platform that only the structure is to a beta level, and the upper levels of the OS, interface, and integrated applications are even at a beta level yet?
Really?
Copy and paste is one of the most basic and vital functions on any computing device. Frankly I don't care if it lowers battery life. Rather that than having to retype something I could have just highlighted, copied and pasted.
Surfing the web, and I want to share a link with a friend via txt msg, or copy text from an article to share with a friend via email etc. Or copy and save text from one file to another.
I never knew what it was like with the iPhone to miss copy and paste because I did not start using the phone till the 3GS came out. I cannot imagine not having it b/c I use it intuitively all the time. There are some situations where you cannot highlight text to be copied and it just irks me.
No No no... this is one reason I can think of that I will not buy any of the first generation Windows Phones. They will put it back; They will indeed. Very foolish.
now if this is all true is like the car industry will start fitting wooden wheels on new cars??? any sense in this???
Fred_EM - Are all of those features being pulled?
1 - no cut & paste ? - That's seriously bad.
2 - limited to downloading officially approved apps ? - Tomtom, will my Tomtom card work on Win7 Mobile? It works on Winmo 6.1.
3 - no support for removable memory cards ? WTF? I have 1, 2, and 8GB cards. Is this for real?
4 - no true multitasking. I often copy n paste from Excel into Notes/SMS Text etc
5 - no file manager ? How am I supposed to manage my files n directories?
6 - no using the phone as a USB mass storage device? - WHAT? I use it as a portable entertainment device, ie a walkman/music player.
6b - I also use it as a simple software portable tool, great for support work.
I am truly stunned that they are doing this. It seems that there are too many idiots talking about how they can sell the customers applications for basic tasks, each idiot is showing the other idiots their forecasts for sales and they are all backslapping each other.
Meanwhile Google's free tools will walk all over them, and all because MS cannot help but fcuk over it's customers.
MS have the biggest golden goose we have ever seen, and we are only at the dawn of the computer age. MS just seem hell bent on killing that goose. Idiots.
MS almost ruled the world.
"Windows Phone OS will not have cut and paste"
'Microsoft claims users don't need it'
Don't need what - the copy and paste feature, or Windows Phone OS? Cuz I certainly need copy and paste, and it looks like I will be a happy Android user in 3 weeks... Hell, my current Symbian phone has copy and paste, why would I downgrade from that?
Microsoft's ship's kobolds must have taken over again.
no cut & paste ?
limited to downloading officially approved apps ?
no support for removable memory cards ?
no true multitasking ?
no file manager ?
no using the phone as a USB mass storage device, no replacement of default apps ?
no using the phone as a USB mass storage device ?
no replacement of default apps ?
You know what, dear Microsoft?
Please keep your Teletubbies "smart"phone OS for your employees.
I have some more words for this,
but it's not fit for being published.
Maybe there's an app for that?
The Microsoft Courier will apparently use Windows 7 Phone OS and according to the videos floating around the web of the courier's functionality, it DOES support copy and paste???
Let me have a guess...
St Jobs didn't bother checking his competition and just released his product to the masses... M$ did check the competition, unfortunately it was an iPhone 1.
I assume multitasking and any respectable support for SMS/MMS messages isn't going to be putting in a show either then?
Ok, he got a fact wrong... lets focus on the point of the article - Microsoft's idiotic decision not to include something so useful.
Did they not see how much of a bashing Apple got for not including it at the start? The are still running adverts saying that the Iphone has it now (which apparently Nick hasn't watched!).
There must be some decent reason, I don't buy Nicks arguement that it's a memory issue - how much can a few lines of text take up?
There has got to be a sensible reason, this is just retarded!
(Mistake has been fixed - Ed)