Word is this morning that some people were starting to see an update being made available for their windows Phone 7 handsets, and just now it has become official:

Windows Phone 7 has its very first update.

The problem is it isn’t the one everyone was hoping for. You know, the one with copy and paste.

According to the Windows Phone Blog this update is just to make sure that your phone will be ready and will behave properly for when the real thing, “NoDo” as it is being called, is released.

What’s in this update?

This first update for Windows Phone is designed to improve the software update process itself. So while it might not sound exciting, it’s still important because it’s paving the way for all future goodie-filled updates to your phone, such as copy and paste or improved Marketplace search.

In the future, I encourage you to check out our new update history page on the Windows Phone website for a brief, plain-English summary of what each update does or what features it adds to your phone.

When will I get this update?

We’ll begin sending it out today. But to help ensure the process goes smoothly, it won’t be sent to everyone at once. So you might see an update message before your spouse, co-worker, or neighbor (or vice versa). This is a common industry practice. That said, we understand you’re eager to have the latest software on your phone, and our goal is to deliver it to you as quickly as possible.

This is something similar to what the users of the Zune Desktop software saw with a recent update that was issued for it.

[Cross-posted at Winextra]