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WP7: No Multitasking, No Cut and Paste

Will this be the start of our love hate relationship with Windows Phone 7 series?

After all, the past few weeks have been nothing but plenty of great news. But now, it seems like Microsoft is showing us a little of the problems that might be bothering the new OS and it looks like we will be in for a long hard fight convincing MS that certain features should really be put in.

Anyway, this week saw the release of the SDK for the OS and several new features that are bound to make the platform much more interesting to use (Silverlight, Notification and Location Services). At the same time, we also learned that the system will be lacking a few key factors.

First off, multi tasking is not longer present. While the OS can handle the music player over anything else, users will not be able to swap between active apps anymore. The hardware on a WP7 will certainly be more than enough to handle multi tasking –a problem quite similar with the Apple devices. The iPhone and the iPad both lack multi tasking as well.

Speaking of iPhone problems, Windows Phone 7 will also come without cut and paste capabilities. For such a simple function, it is pretty surprising that Microsoft has not enabled it; even worse, the system will be having the Pocket Office apps –unless these apps will have their own cut and paste technology. In any case, expect to see a lot of disappointed folks when they see this feature missing. Lastly, the WP7 will not support SD cards for extra storage space. Oddly enough, these traits are quite similar to the Apple iPhone OS –closed system and all.

Read more about the cut and paste issue with Windows Phone 7 at Mobile Choice UK.