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Richard Chao
05-13-2011, 07:05 AM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://windowsteamblog.com/windows_phone/b/windowsphone/archive/2011/05/12/10-questions-for-the-queen-of-copy-and-paste.aspx' target='_blank'>http://windowsteamblog.com/windows_...-and-paste.aspx</a><br /><br /></div><p><em>"Singhal's official title is program manager on the Windows Phone engineering team. Unofficially, she's the "queen of copy and paste," as some of her co-workers good-naturedly call her. It was Singhal who led the team that created this feature, the highlight of the March update."</em></p><p><img height="384" src="http://images.thoughtsmedia.com//wpt/auto/1305258846.usr117680.png" style="border: 1px solid #d2d2bb;" width="576" /></p><p>Priyanka Singhal is a Program Manager on the Windows Phone engineering team. &nbsp;You may not have heard of her, but, I bet you probably have heard of the feature she was in charge of. &nbsp;It is one of the more&nbsp;prominent feature of the March NoDo update if not the most. &nbsp;Yep, 'Cut and Paste.' &nbsp;</p><p>Michael Stroh from the windowsteamblog just posted his interview with Priyanka regarding 'Cut and Paste.' &nbsp;He posed the following 10 questions to Priyanka:</p><p><MORE />1.&nbsp;Q: First, I have a confession: copy and paste isn't a phone feature I use much. But I know many folks are passionate about it. What am I missing?</p><p>2.&nbsp;Q: In your previous job, you worked on text editing features like copy and paste on the desktop. How is a phone different?</p><p>3.&nbsp;Q: So you're saying that behind the scenes copying and pasting isn't as simple as it looks.</p><p>4.&nbsp;Q: How did you develop the feature?</p><p>5.&nbsp;Q: So what then?</p><p>6.&nbsp;Q: What problems or challenges did you encounter along the way?</p><p>7.&nbsp;Q: What's the toughest part of your job?</p><p>8.&nbsp;Q: Any examples?</p><p>9.&nbsp;Q: Will copy and paste change for Mango?</p><p>10.&nbsp;Q: What are you most proud of?</p><p>Click the read link to see her answers. &nbsp;</p>