Here's a quote from the the article at http://gizmodo.com/5495005/hey-microsoft-dont-fck-up-windows-phone-7

"Dear Microsoft, you did a good job at out-Appling Apple with the Windows Phone 7. At least on paper. But instead of trying to beat them completely, it seems that you want to screw it all with two stupid decisions.

The first one: Eliminate application multitasking. After making fun of Apple's iPhone for not supporting multitasking, you are exactly following Apple's task model... just when it seems that they are bringing multitasking with iPhone OS 4.0."

"And then... then there is copy and paste."

This will suffice for the article at hand. As you may know Windows is releasing a mobile OS platform to compete with the Iphone. My question to Microsoft is... You wouldn't really pull something like this, right? It should be common knowledge by now that everyone likes copy&paste, and everyone hates the lack of ability to multitask.

After all, there are several websites for popular mobile devices that offer a hack for tabbed browsing on normally tab-less browsers. A good example of one of these tabless browsers is the Opera browser for the Nintendo DSi, or Nintendo Wii. Neither have tabs built in, but in both cases there are websites that attempt to hack makeshift tabs for you. In some cases they work very well, such as one site called http://dsitabs.co.cc/

If that doesn't convince you that people love their multi-tasking I don't know what will.

As for copy paste, I don't see why it's a matter of "having it" instead of a matter of "not having it"

After all, shouldn't such a simple, basic functionality of Windows be standard? I dread the idea of typing everything out, on a phone no less, everything I could've copy&pasted in far less time. Don't remove things for no good reason.

This isn't the computer market, this is the phone/mp3 market. And to be honest Apple dominates that market right now. Microsoft needs to take this area of their business seriously, because to be honest it seems obvious to me they couldn't care less about Apple in the computer market.

All in all I think Microsoft has the advantage of better technology here and should make good use of it.

I don't know about the readers, but if the new Windows Phone turns out to be as good it sounds, I'll make an effort to get it.