No copy-and-paste for Windows Phone 7 Series

Microsoft has decided to drop copy-and-paste support from Windows Phone 7 series. This might be all too familiar to some, as this has happened to the iPhone before, where Apple eventually had to bring back the feature.

You’re probably thinking that Microsoft has somehow forgot to add this essential feature to the OS, but the guys over at Microsoft claim that it’s an intentional design decision. They claim that with the new “smart linking” feature, where you can easily dial a number or view the map of an address without having to copy over these text, it will replace the need for copy-and-paste. What about Office applications users, you ask? Well, Microsoft couldn’t care less about them. Microsoft said that they “wanted to really do well the tasks that 80 percent of users wanted. “, but at the same time blatantly ignoring the needs of the other 20%? They could have included both the copy-and-paste as well as the smart linking feature, but it’s unclear at the moment why they did not choose to do so. Take for example, a BlackBerry. If a BlackBerry can have both copy-and-paste and smart linking features, why can’t Microsoft do the same on its Windows Phone 7 series?

Via [Engadget] and [CNET News]