RUMOR: WINDOWS PHONE 7 UPDATE COMING END OF MONTH; GETTING COPY-PASTE FUNCTION

At last night’s CES keynote, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was fairly cagey about when Windows Phone 7 users can expect the first major update that is supposed to bring the much-anticipated support for cut-and-paste to the operating system. In fact, Ballmer wouldn’t let himself be pegged down to any time frame sooner than “the next few months.”

He may have been being disingenuous. Some digging into the URL that Microsoft is using for the forthcoming update’s details page says “january-update.aspx” at the end of it, and then goes into much greater detail about the actual contents of the forthcoming update, which will include copy and paste, as well as faster app and game startup times and better Marketplace search. [Geek]