Hasta La Gadget!

It took Apple two years to finally add copy and paste to the iPhone line, a feature that Microsoft (among others) has offered forever on its smartphones.

Now Microsoft has announced it plans to take away copy and paste functionality with the upcoming Windows Phone 7 Series, its ground-up revamp of the clunky Windows Mobile OS.

According to Engadget, Microsoft is claiming that most users, “including Office users,” don’t really need clipboard functionality, and that there’s a data-detection service built into the text-handling API that can pick up phone numbers and addresses.

This follows a report that Microsoft plans to eliminate multitasking, another feature that iPhone users had been clamoring for for ages. I never thought progress could seem so… backward.