Despite the fanfare of the Windows Phone 7 launch Microsoft are being decidedly more coy when it comes to revealing the sales figures for the platform so far. This has led many a pundit and industry watcher to conclude that things are not all sunshine and rainbows in Window Phone land.

however, an analysts at Neeham Co, Charles Wolf is bucking that trend to say that he thinks Windows Phone 7 has had a successful launch. Annoyingly he makes no mention of sales figures, like Microsoft themselves, but does note that the Windows Phone 7 Facebook app has 135,000 active users.

Wolf is confident that Microsoft has enough financial muscle to persuade handset manufacturers to give their new platform a whirl, and of course Microsoft has not been a shrinking violet when it comes to throwing money around. They have already been paying developers to create apps for Windows Phone 7 and have sunk a cool $500 million into an advertising campaign.

Its already common knowledge that Microsoft have, what may be a major or minor, update for Windows Phone 7 planned for January, but the latest scuttlebut is that there is another update in the works ready for deployment soon afterwards in February.

WinRumours are reporting that "Microsoft second update will introduce enhanced developer controls for applications" and that "Microsoft is expected to open up several new APIs that will allow for greater multi-tasking, in-app downloads and better customization for end users."

The second update is already apparently shipping out to select beta users for testing. This would perhaps explain why the January update was initially expected to be 'massive', perhaps it has been split into two seperate updates?

At any rate one of the new features expected to be introduced in the February update is Silverlight support with Brian Keller, Win Phone 7 senior technical evangelist, saying of it "I think we are saving those, for say another event. If only there was a massive event in Barcelona on mobile phones and or other events in the future." The obvious reference there being MWC, which takes place in Spain in February.

It seems that installing more than 15 push notification apps on a Windows Phone 7 device is not such a good idea... basically because they stop working if you do.

It seems that the OS can handle 15 of the apps just find and dandy, but as soon as app 16 is installed the whole show goes belly up and the apps stop receiving updates. The initial reaction of many may be to assume this must be a bug or a flaw and to then suitably chastise Microsoft for it. However, it is no flaw.

Microsoft system attempts to maintain a single connection to the server that handles the various requests by different applications. The underlying reasoning behind this approach is esentially an attempt at improving battery life. It's the same approach Apple adopted for iOS.

Android on the other hand has developers using their own notification system, collating all the disparate notifications from different apps in the single notification bar at the top of the screen. This means that Android can pretty much handle as many push notification apps as your phone has memory for. Incidentally, its worth noting that this approach seems to work out just fine when it comes to battery life.

At any rate Microsoft made two important points regarding the issue: pre-installed Microsoft apps don't count towards the 15 total, and the limit may be upgraded somewhere down the line.

Its also worth pointing out that 15 push notification apps is quite a lot so realistically few people are likely going to notice this problem.

The test WP7-driven Samsung Taylor has just made it to the headlines once again. And this time, while posing for the camera, it demonstrates the upcoming copy-and-paste functionality, which is supposed to ship as a first major Windows Phone 7 software update.

Microsoft promised to bring copy and paste to the Windows Phone 7 and according to the following images and the video below them the company sure knows how to keep its promise.

As you can see, the rumored Omnia HD-like Samsung Taylor with the WP7 build 7.0.7338.0 on board features copy and paste.

Video Below!