Windows Phone 7 update available 'early March'
Steve Ballmer, CEO at Microsoft, has confirmed that Windows Phone 7 users will begin to receive the first Windows Phone 7 update in 'early March'.
He revealed the update in a keynote at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona today. The software update has rumoured to have been delayed because of concerns from operators and device manufacturers.
The update will contain a copy and paste functionality that users have been asking for since the platform launched in October. It is expected that Windows Phone 7 devices will also receive additional features within the next year, including Internet Explorer 9, support for cloud-based Microsoft Office documents, and the addition of Twitter to the People Hub.
Microsoft last week announced details of a strategic partnership with Nokia which will see a sharing of software on each company's smartphone and web search platforms. Sales of the Windows 7 phone are said to have been a disappointment for Microsoft, who posted 2 million worldwide sales at the end of January, a number that represents handsets sold to mobile operators and retailers and not necessarily consumers.