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Bloomberg BusinessWeek as well as the New york Occasions have each reported that Microsoft is looking to add support for Near-Field Communications (NFC) towards the Windows Telephone platform within the not-too-distant long run.
NFC is short-range wireless technology that will enable cellular payments. People with NFC-capable phones will be able to make use of their phones like a charge card to pay out for products and solutions.
Microsoft isn’t confirming the NFC reports. (Nor are officials denying them.) But after reading a few subsequent reports, it sounds to me like it is going to become Microsoft’s new best-friend Nokia that may be delivering NFC — at least initially.
Nokia is going to become demo’ing something at Microsoft’s Mix ‘11 conference in mid-April,Office 2010 Professional, according to Microsoft Corporate Vice President Joe Belfiore, who did a Channel 9 interview about Mix recently. And Microsoft is heading to become talking about more unannounced features of its “Mango” Windows Phone 7 update at the same show, he said. Perhaps Nokia will be demo’ing NFC running on a Windows Phone 7 Mango prototype?
(And remember: Nokia is not just another Microsoft partner. It is now Microsoft’s premiere WP7 partner with special rights and privileges. Maybe one of the possible WP handset modifications from Nokia will have to do with NFC….)
Amid all this speculation, there’s a more pressing question. Will people who’ve already bought Windows Phone 7 phones be able to get NFC support on their devices? Because NFC requires support at the chip level, I’d say the answer is no.
Update: Because the Windows for Devices folks note (thanks,Office Enterprise 2007, @gadgetsense), there could be a way to add NFC assistance via Bluetooth to older  WP7 devices at some point. But telephone vendors want to sell new phones,Office 2007 Product Key, not “fix” old ones, so I’m betting it won’t be a commonly deployed solution if and when it becomes available.
So if you’re Microsoft, do you talk up NFC support,Windows 7 Ultimate Key, knowing that doing so could result in end users postponing WP7 purchase plans? Or do you let Nokia talk up NFC, so as to entice consumers to wait for your first Nokia WP7s? If I were a betting woman, I’d say the Softies will take Door No. 2. That still won’t make current WP7 customers who might possibly be interested in NFC very happy,Microsoft Office 2010, but it’s in all probability the lesser of two evils….