Windows Phone 7 to Get Copy & Paste Support Later

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Yesterday Andrew told us how Windows Phone 7 Series was not going to come with the Copy and Paste function which also happens to be one of my 8 reasons not to ditch your iPhone in favor of the first Windows Phone 7 Series handset that’s going to be available in stores this fall.

But now, in an anticipated turn of events, Redmond itself has decided to confirm to everyone that Copy and Paste, a function that “nobody really uses”, will be coming to the WP7S universe at some point after launch, which is still better than nothing.

So if Microsoft was going to include Copy and Paste and Flash in its new mobile platform why not do so from the beginning? Why take an Apple-like approach and launch the first phone running a new OS without some very basic features.

Unlike Apple, who offered us the Copy and Paste function after a very long period of time after the launch of the original iPhone, Microsoft will offer the same functionality a lot faster. And unlike Apple who hates the guts of Flash, Microsoft will make Flash available to the masses.

If all that comes true then it means I’ll only have 6 reasons not to replace the iPhone with a new Windows Phone 7 Series smartphone. But until then the first users of WP7S handsets won’t be able to Copy and Paste anything which is pretty annoying in my book. I like to Copy and Paste every once in a while. In fact in some days I think of six impossible things and Copy and Paste them on my smartphone before breakfast.

On the other hand I’ll also appreciate the lack of Flash and Copy and Paste function in the first handsets that are going to run Windows Phone 7. You know why? Because should Microsoft have wanted to include them in the first place then we’d see Windows Mobile 7 emerge only at some point in 2011 which is not something we really want to witness. Instead we want to see the iPhone 4G battle all those HTC HD2-like handsets by the end of the year. But don’t tell anyone, it’s a secret!