Microsoft has dropped one of the biggest bomb shells about their Windows Phone 7 Platform: They will not be including a copy and paste function to it.

This comes as a big surprise because surely Microsoft studies their competition and they are aware of the fact that iPhone users have rallied to actually get a copy and paste functionality for their iPhones. And they did actually get it with the release of the iPhone 3.0 operating system. So what is up with Microsoft? According to Todd Brix, an executive of the Windows Phone team:

“We don’t enable copy and paste and we do that very intentionally. It’s actually an intentional design decision. We try to anticipate what the user wants so copy and paste isn’t necessary.”

That does not really coincide with the number of fan comments pointing towards the other direction. Considering the fact that the previous Windows Phone devices have the functionality, it is very strange that Windows Phone 7 would lack it. It is especially weird because Windows Phone 7 is going to highlight the use of traditional Windows Office apps which would obviously calls for a copy and paste function.

In the place of a traditional copy and paste function, Windows Phone 7 devices will instead be able to make use of a system called “smart linking”. Smart linking allows the phone to detect information such as phone numbers or addresses and will be able to transfer them via double clicking. However, this is a very limiting function that cannot really replace the traditional function.

Although this is only one of aspects of Windows Phone 7, this could still potentially damage their reputation as an overall business device. Many applications rely on the function and document editing really relies on it. Microsoft insists that clipboard functionality is not a necessity. We’ll see the results once Windows Phone 7 rolls out.

Read more about Microsoft’s decision at Geek.

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