[img]http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2010/10/wp7-
slide.jpg[/img]Chris Walsh -- one of the forces behind the ChevronWP7
app sideload hack for Windows Phone 7 -- went on record earlier this
week saying that the first platform update coming early next year
would be "massive" with so many improvements and new features that
"they could have called it Windows Phone 8." That's a pretty bold
statement, and it's been making the rounds so fiercely today that
Microsoft felt the need to lay down the law with an official statement
-- albeit not a very strongly-worded one:
"Microsoft is committed to delivering regular updates to the Windows
Phone experience. Our first update will make copy & paste
available in early 2011. In addition to this first update, all Windows
Phone 7 users should expect to see additional updates delivered in the
future as part of Microsoft's ongoing update process."
So it sounds to us like priority one in Redmond is to get copy and
paste up and running (which is basically the message they've been
delivering for a while), though we should expect plenty more through
future updates. When you figure in the size of the team Microsoft has
built for engineering this platform -- and the fact that they've now
got the initial retail release out of the way -- we're hoping they've
got nothing better to do than to churn on some of these pain points
users have identified over the next few months. Should be a heck of a
year coming up, eh?
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