Copy and paste coming to Windows Phone 7 ‘in a matter of weeks’

By on Nov 5, 2010 at 8:27 AM
Software November 5, 2010

Lending a tremendous amount of credibility to rumors that Windows Phone 7 would receive copy and paste functionality in January, a Microsoft executive has commented on the impending arrival of feature. In a blog post, Microsoft’s Director of Microsoft Project Arpan Shah said the following while addressing critics of Windows Phone 7:

Critics have commented on the lack of specific features like copy & paste and lack of 100s of thousands of applications. And while both are true, copy & paste will be available as an update in a matter of weeks (early 2011) and as for applications, it’s just a matter of time.

We’re still eight weeks away from the end of 2010, so we doubt Shah would have used the phrase “a matter of weeks” if the time line stretched beyond the end of January.

[Via Windows Phone Central]

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  • John

    maybe they’ll add the ability to set a custom ringtone too
    =P

    • Anonymous

      It’ll eventually come, there have been some XDA developers who found access to custom ringtones options and search in the marketplace.

  • Blthomas438

    Windows phone7 what a joke. Dosen’t come anywhere close to a droid phone or the android OS. As for apps who Wants to develope apps for an is that’s probably not going to last very long. Microsoft is crazy to try and challenge android or even the locked down and restricted apple iPhone. ANDRUOD RULES and will eventually crush the competition.

    Lol:-)

    • RealDeal

      Yeah! Cause it will be awesome to only have one vender. Innovation really starts happening when there is a complete lack of competition. Wake up. Windows phone 7 is only good news for Android users, and iOS and BB users for that matter, it will keep OS and UI improvements coming.

      • Anonymous

        Yeah, like… copy/paste. I mean, now iOS and Android will have to implement that too, amirite?!

    • Anonymous

      Last time I’ve checked, ( let me check again ; yup) android has a horrible implementation of copy/paste. Pretty much like not having it. Especially in some apps it doesn’t even exsist. Got to hand to to the iPhone, I love its copy/paste method.

      • Anonymous

        What are you talking about?? All you do is hold down on a word and press the copy button, its a lot easier and faster than on my ipod touch and it exists anywhere you have text. Get ya facts straight

      • Anonymous

        I hate ignorant sounding people like yourself. Do me a favor. Go into an email from the native gmail app. Try copying a body of text. You can’t. Androids “copy/paste” is very far in-between. Its lackluster capabilities need a much improved method.

        “Get ya faxts str8 yo doggy”

      • jason6g

        amazingly enough, you can copy paste text ANYWHERE on an android. so mr brianwm, how about you get your facts straight before flaming the comments.

        I for one think its nice to see MS changing this. I currently use an android, i have a few iphones laying around, and i will try wp7 when it hits. one OS cannot and will not be the end all of os’s – for that each and every person will have a set of features they like. one os is not superior, it just caters to different needs of different people.

      • Anonymous

        I’m with you. Haven’t seen a device that does it easier than Android. Think Brian is still looking for his mouse to right click or something.

      • Anonymous

        i dont use the Gmail client because of that, thats the only Android app that handles copy/paste the way it does and thats why I use HTC’s Mail client on my Evo, which is far superior than Gmail in my opinion. Gmail isnt the only email client on Android. ANY other app or body of text you can copy and paste how I explained above

    • FanBoyCawkRawk

      Last time I checked, WP7 isn’t even available in the U.S. until Monday.

      Only stupid fanboys hate crap they never tried.

      • Anonymous

        I know I’m going going to hate the next iPad, iPod, and iPhone and I’ve never tried those. This may make me a stupid fanboy, but it also says something about the predictability of like this.

      • obo

        Only Idiots have to eat crap to know what it tastes like

  • Tomm

    How this wasn’t initially part of the OS ceases to amaze me.

  • Jls

    Did they say the Blackberry is old and outdated…this is a brand new OS and you have to wait for a simple thing as copy and paste. Maybe in 2012 they will get true multitasking…LMAO

  • Anonymous

    Love the retards that let the OS ship without copy/paste. Feel like it’s 1995.

    • Anonymous

      Or 2008, on an iPhone…

  • j3ff

    I’m pretty sure “a matter of weeks” doesn’t mean 2+ months…that would be a matter of months. Oh well, it’s semantics. Copy+paste is a rather useful feature – surprised so many phones have hit the market without that functionality…

  • Bringit

    (and…the 3 people who use Windows Phone 7 stand up and cheer for this “new” feature).

    • Anonymous

      Not including the 90k MS workers or 20k Dell workers getting free ones right?

  • Anonymous

    at least it won’t take 2.5 years, like with the jesus phone

    • http://twitter.com/neotorama neotorama

      still no multitasking

      • Anonymous

        yes, of course you are correct. and how long did it take Apple to do task switching?? :)

      • Anon

        This isn’t the first smartphone offered by Microsoft. They’ve been making them for almost a decade. To be lacking features that they offered in their older operating systems is ridiculous.

      • Anonymous

        Anon,. agreed, it’s rather lame that there’s no multitasking.

      • http://twitter.com/neotorama neotorama

        windows phone SEVEN! The motherfucking 7th edition.

        iPhone already has it in 4th.

        you must be windows ass licker.

    • Vilda

      Yeah, but first iPhone came in 2007, no it`s 2010, they are little late on this one, their 6.5 windows mobile were able to C&P years ago.

      • Anonymous

        I don’t think the 2007 iPhone should be given a “pass” just because of the state of technology in 2007. :) Cut and paste and multitasking BOTH should have been incorporated back then…and what about those intrusive alerts?? Those bug me on my Touch.

  • Evil Lizz2ie

    I just copied and pasted in the native android gmail app. If you can’t you’re doing it wrong.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_E2FUW7WQQF57VH6GTKDW6UVNWE Ivan Joukov

    Ugh I don’t get it. I’m a developer, and granted I don’t write code specifically to run on smartphones, but what the hell is so hard about implementing copy and paste?

    This seems like the sort of feature you can put together in a week tops. I mean YOU COPY SOME TEXT, STORE IT IN MEMORY, THEN OUTPUT IT. Not rocket surgery.

  • Ezyesm

    I would possibly try WP7 after they implement copy and past and multitasking on some good hardware. My friend has an original droid running 2.2 and he likes my IPhone 4 better.

  • Mgl323

    Heard W7P would have a similar Copy and Paste like the iphones/iOS devices

  • http://twitter.com/derrickisonline Derrick -Lex-

    OMG!!! COPY AND PASTE!! ARE YOU FKNG KIDDING ME!!!! This is revolutionary!!! Just ask Apple! Ok well I give them credit for AT LEAST setting it up NEAR the release of the phone.

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