Cut and paste dropped from Windows Phone 7 Series

Wrong

So a chance for someone to make a cut and past app then.More money for somone to make for a feature that some people will need.

By Jaberwocky on 17 Mar 2010

Speechless

"general cut and paste actions will be disabled, even in the mobile version of the Office 2010 apps" - Word mobile without paste function? How stupid is that??

By Lomskij on 17 Mar 2010

"Certainly there will be some people that wont be happy with some of those decisions."

Yes. They're called Customers.

By Josefov on 17 Mar 2010

Re: Wrong

I don't think it will be possible to make a cut and paste app due to the lack of background processes and notifications - then again, there are a lot of very clever developers out there!

Still, awful decision my MS. Lets hope someone sees sense and fixes this before the launch. RTM isn't until July/August so there is plenty of time.

By Bassey1976 on 17 Mar 2010

Oh No!

M$: "We want to be like Apple. They didn't have C&P and they were really popular with the users"

I won't swear cause it's not nice, but what a bunch of ........

By Brettrowley1 on 17 Mar 2010

Idiotic

Haven't they learnt *anything* from the early years of the iPhone? Lack of CnP was one of the device's biggest criticisms. Along with no multi-tasking, which MS seems to have copied too.

Cut and paste? I think they missed the 'n'...

By PaulOckenden on 17 Mar 2010

Jo

I currently have the htc hd.
4 reasons I chose windows mobile over anything else Multi tasking, cut and paste, HTC UI and the wide range of serious software available. Looks like android will be the logical progression for a WM6 user

By aryehsc on 17 Mar 2010

Not clever

I can see how they might feel the smart tagging will be able to pre-empt your actions making copy/paste redundant, but i have yet to see a cleevr enough tagging / linking system that is able to pickup all the slight subtleties and querks people use to format they're data.

I think copy / paste is a very much needed feature in any smartphone.

By saqib_ on 17 Mar 2010

Why?

Its not like it will affect users who dont need it so why leave out such a basic feature?

Fingers crossed they use their fancy new updating system to add it in the future - or a clever developer makes an app for it!

By InducedChalice on 17 Mar 2010

M$ have lost the plot!

I'm currently running the HTC HD2, and I love it. When I heard of the core specs for WP7S I was excited at the thought of running it on the HD2. But these 'features' M$ are dropping in are making me wanna drop WM full stop and move to Android. I don't like the iPhone and never will, I like to tinker which is why the HD2 is such a good phone.

If Microsoft think they're on an winner they're sorely mistaken

By EddyOS_2K9 on 17 Mar 2010

Stupid

Stupid, stupid, stupid idea. Come on MS, you were doing so well with this new UI. Don't mess it up now!

By Grunthos on 17 Mar 2010

Geez...

What is wrong with MS at the moment? Can't they see this is a huge error. Like many others, my choice of an Android based phone over a WM or Apple iBlocked is looking like a pretty good one.

By CraigieDD on 17 Mar 2010

Brilliant!

Microsoft are so determined to copy Apple that they even copy their mistakes!

But then they are so slow that they copy the mistakes AFTER Apple have acknowledged and corrected them!

By JohnAHind on 17 Mar 2010

With the type of mirror features....

...and subsequent loss of well known features in wp7s or woopsy as I call it, are we getting the Iphone in all but name?

MS to idea is to blow the competiton out of the water, not imitate them and lessen your feature set.

Bad move.

By Ajamu1 on 17 Mar 2010

So who have they asked?

MS have a history here. If they can't redefine black as white they will dictate to their customer base, telling them that they don't need something essential, or they do need something idiotic. I suspect that this is a way of tightening up the clipboard in order to improve security; but you don't remove essential services ever, because then you lose functionality. I for one will be going elsewhere if this makes it through to the final release.

By Bregelad on 18 Mar 2010

Vista Mobile

Ahhh, so Windows Mobile 7 is going to be Mobile Vista. It's an iPhone for me, it has cut and paste and we don't get Apple removing essential features and compatibility with all previous applications

By MarkWall1966 on 18 Mar 2010

Shot themselves in the foot

I've Always Used CnP 4 photos, moving them from device camera to SD card,so I'll be avoiding the 7 series,pity as I'm in need of an Up-grade after 3yrs with an HTC Windows6 Phone.

By JoFrances on 18 Mar 2010

Yeah, yeah, Stupid Microsoft

Like shooting fish in a barrel; critisising any 'left of field' ideas that come out of MS. I remember all the derision heaped on Office 2007's interface. Who's laughing now? I'm not sure MS has got it 100% right on this one but credit them with some sense, there's a lot of very clever (and good) designers behind WP7 and to just slag them off without being informed is just parading ignorence.

Oh, and BTW, WP7 is multi-tasking, unlike Apple.

By pbhudds on 18 Mar 2010

Oh bugger, iPhone clone coming soon...

OMFG, MS... No C&P? That's WM7 out for me... And I've been a staunch WinMo user since the first Orange SPV came out... :-(

By skooptech on 18 Mar 2010

it was all going so well

everything looked like it was going to be perfect, and then they go and spoil it all by doing something stupid like this.

We will just call it an Apple moment!

By jcnewman83 on 18 Mar 2010

Crack pot idea

Some geeks decide to make a too cool for school decision like this. great publicity but not a great idea. You can bet that copy/cut/paste will be available in WM7.

By brucemin on 18 Mar 2010

Unbelievable!

I stuck with Windows Mobile for years, and only moved away when the iPhone 3GS came out - because they finally implemented cut and paste.

If this is true, I won't be returning to Windows on my phone any time soon. Essential feature for me.

By mjmsoft on 18 Mar 2010

Oh No !

Love the HTC HD2, but some aspects of Office mobile make me scream. Word mobile seems to only see through one depth of folder. Notes allover the place ? Yet photos % MP3's work brilliantly,can be filed away and still work. But you can't file away Docs ???
No copy and paste for Word ? Do they realise how much Office 2007 pro cost. Not to mention Activesync.
It's sad when you have to buy apps to get the phone to function as it should.

I needed a Business phone
not a photo/music player and Win7 mobile seems to be going in the wrong direction as far as this is concerned.

By Francis on 18 Mar 2010

Wrong Wrong Wrong Wrong Wrong

WP7 will have cut/copy/paste (but maybe not at 1st launch) and multitasking:

http://www.windowsitpro.com/article/paul-thurrotts
-wininfo/MIX-10-Silly-Questions-Emerge-About-Windo
ws-Phone.aspx

By pbhudds on 18 Mar 2010

Cut and Paste - essential for Office

My main reason for buying a Pocket PC in 2002 was the ability to use Office applications on the move. My main reason for using a Touch HD with Windows Mobile remains the same.

I use Cut and Paste within Word and Excel all the time - it is a fundamental function.

Maybe the answer is to stick with WM6, until MS realise where they have gone wrong and put it into Windows Mobile 8!

By pbarclay on 19 Mar 2010

Lost the plot

if cut and paste are notavailable on WM7 then I will definitely not be getting a phone with WM7.

Cust and paste are fundamental to transferring between texts, emails and documents, especially when you only want part of the contents.

By MalcolmEgner on 19 Mar 2010

What complete idiocy - or just bad info

Are they alienating a huge chunk of their current user base in favour of the "new direction" that the WP7S team is heading in? Or is this just another instance of the press not getting the whole story?

iStartedSomething reports that MS have issued a statement to say that WP7S WILL have cut & paste, just not at launch. Read more here: http://www.istartedsomething.com/20100318/windows-
phone-7-series-will-have-copy-paste-eventually/

By budchawla on 19 Mar 2010

Not true

http://www.istartedsomething.com/20100318/windows-
phone-7-series-will-have-copy-paste-eventually/

By budchawla on 19 Mar 2010

android for me

oh dear... oh dear, oh dear. who actually makes these decisions? and who changes their nappies?

By silverlord on 19 Mar 2010

Get over it!!

The iPhone is not that great WITH cut & paste. I only use C&P on the iPhone, because their crappy software wont let me forward a text, so I have to copy it and paste it into a conversation. How intuitive is that?.

What nobody seems to be considering is that MS may have thought of a better way of doing C&P (hence the announcement!) rather than leaving customers with a useless OS.

I'm not a fan boy, I like my iPhone but lets not get too excited by this.

By madasachip on 21 Mar 2010