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Microsoft Launches NFC Payments For Windows 10 Phones (nfcworld.com)
Microsoft has finally added support for NFC payments to its mobile operating system Windows 10 Mobile. The company this week introduced the feature in an update to Microsoft Wallet app. Users will now be able to make mobile payments with their MasterCard or Visa accounts. The feature is now available to eligible Windows 10 Mobile handset users who are part of Windows Insiders program. Other users will get it with Windows 10 Anniversary Update in a few months. From a blog post on NFC World: Supporting banks and credit unions include Bank of America, BECU, Chase, First Tech, Fifth Third Bank, People's United Bank, US Bank and Virginia Credit Union. The launch date for each bank will be "posted when available," according to Microsoft. "Microsoft Wallet is a cloud-based payment technology that will make mobile payments simple and more secure for Windows 10 Mobile devices, starting in the US with our Lumia 950, 950 XL and 650," the company says. "With Microsoft Wallet, you simply tap your phone on a contactless payment terminal and your default credit or debit card is charged.
for he is all that is left using it.
... that moment when you lose you phone and realise that not only will someone have access to all your contacts and logins, but they can potentially clean out your bank account too. Isn't progress wonderful?
My friend works at a Sprint store. They have a Windows Phone in the back. No one is asking to see it, no one is demanding to buy it. A failed relic that belongs in the dustbin of history.
I thought Microsoft is abandoning the mobile platform entirely, because of overwhelmingly poor sales.
Also... considering their hideous track record for security in general (Most recently: https://threatpost.com/office-... which was nothing short of breathtakingly boneheaded...), even if I had a Windows Phone (which I never will), I would never trust it to hold something as important as my credit card details.
...dozens of people rejoice!
You've been able to do this for ages in Windows 10 for Phones:
1. Settings
2. Devices
3. NFC
4. Tap to pay
It defaults to adding the cost to your phone bill, but you can add additional cards and payment method management apps as well.
I've been buying stuff using a linked card for 6 months now.
This just sounds like MS are adding an easier management system to it all and thats whats been noticed.
And next year someone might write an app to use the functionality......
Reports confirm that the user is very excited!
Supporting banks and credit unions include Bank of America, BECU, Chase, First Tech, Fifth Third Bank, People's United Bank, US Bank and Virginia Credit Union.
who all responded, "Windows has a phone?"
Good people go to bed earlier.
If you tap it, how is that contactless?
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
They started stealing from debit cards. Do you think they aren't already planning to do the same to your bank account via NFC?
I don't really understand this news. I don't think I use NFC, but maybe it is just so normal to have that it has become invisible and I use it daily without knowing. NFC has been out since the early 00's. Wasn't it available on previous versions of Windows (desktop and mobile)? Why didn't they support it in Windows 10 from the start?
Worst of all is that when I get to work tomorrow the Windows phone boys will all be trilled of joy about this new feature and I can only do a face palm thinking only 34 years working as a parasite until retirement which brings me yet a step closer to a complete burn out or depression...
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Sorry, 3 out of the 5 Windows phone like that.
Fun fact: Nokia had a mobile payment system back in 2010, which was wildly successful in India and was about to be launched in other developing countries. Yet, they shut it down in 2012. Guess why? Because that service was compatible with Nokia's own systems - S40, Symbian, Meego - but not with shitty Windows Phone!
Circumcision is child abuse.
Both of them?
I like this NFC payment system.
I live in Denver, and the Broncos are in the AFC, so I'm exempt from paying for the phone!
This is going to get ugly
I can imagine that the billions of Windows Phone users must be thrilled to have this feature first, years before the competition. It's no wonder that Windows Phone is the leader in mobile operating systems.
What will Microsoft think of next?
Suck it, Google! Kiss my ass, Apple!
This is all true, but users still refuse to abandon the Windows platform, no matter how rapey it gets. So what incentive does MS have to change?
Well someone will take a different tack with software and OS in the future placing user authority as #1. Much like "Quality is Job 1" Ford commercials... "Users are #1" as a mantra is something that some lucky big corporation will get to milk for years.
If a company like Tesla would hurry up and release an OS and business documents suite, I'd be really happy.
OSes are pretty basic things if you gut the bloatware and go minimalist. Linux does a good job but they don't make it easy for the mainstream public.
Document suites are really easy too. All you need is something that can apply CSS templates to whatever word you have highlighted; or go line by line. You'd want a spreadsheet. Nothing the extravaganza that Excel is.
Open Office does these things but they don't compete against MSFT in the best way. They go toe-to-toe with features. That's stupid. They should have gone pure minimalist.
I suspect someone will do this and rake in the cash as a lot of folks would make the switch.
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As in "Nobody F***ing Cares" ?
They've had that feature since inception!
Prepaid debit cards, which hold the funds in a sort of anonymous way. Which is something criminals often use to move large sums of cash.
While the same scanners will work with cards linked to actual accounts, the civil forfeiture program doesn't allow forfeiture in that case. It does allow the confiscation of more than $X or cash equivalents. Which debit cards are.
TL;DR this doesn't change any of the legal requirements, nor whether those particular cards were confiscatible. It just changes whether a trooper can detect the amount on the cards. I oppose this because I would like to see where a supervisor got involved (or higher) before performing a civil forfeiture. But I don't think the police department should be denied these devices.
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I'm an owner of a ICON phone and I'm very disappointed with Microsoft. They never did what they needed to do to get a market and actually abandoned us for a bit. I gave them a chance and they really screwed it up I will not be giving them a second!
If they really wanted to get into the market they needed to release free things like games etc that can only be used on their phone but they failed to do this and now some of the free things they had (like GPS driving instructions) are going away. Most of the apps on the store are crap and I mean crap, some will crash right away.
Well someone will take a different tack with software and OS in the future placing user authority as #1.
Oh please. We've all been talking about "the year of Linux on the desktop" for over 15 years now, and it hasn't happened, or really come even close. Even Macs have had a lot more success in penetrating the business computing sector. Red Hat and Canonical have been at this stuff for ages with no real success (except on servers of course).
If a company like Tesla would hurry up and release an OS and business documents suite, I'd be really happy.
We already have other business documents suites: OpenOffice and LibreOffice have been around for ages, and there's also Google Docs. People aren't using them much; businesses especially are sticking with MS Office. And why would an automaker get into business software anyway?
OSes are pretty basic things if you gut the bloatware and go minimalist. Linux does a good job but they don't make it easy for the mainstream public.
Yes, they do actually. Installing something like Linux Mint is pretty easy, and a whole lot easier than installing Windows. I'd really like to see someone sit grandma down at a desktop PC built from components and have her install the latest Windows on it. You really think grandma is going to be able to figure out how to download drivers for stuff? And then get all the essential but not-included software you still need to make it functional (like a real web browser, a PDF viewer, etc.)? With Linux, you can have a fully-functional system in a half-hour all from one USB stick. Making things easy makes no difference at all; people are going to continue to use Windows.
Open Office does these things but they don't compete against MSFT in the best way. They go toe-to-toe with features. That's stupid. They should have gone pure minimalist.
Yeah, I'm sure that's really what mainstream users want: to replace their word processor with a text editor with CSS templates. *rollseyes*
Would you argue that Linux was designed with the user as priority #1? I wouldn't. I'd argue it was designed for system admins who wanted to keep their jobs and prevent others from challenging them. Then later on it was given slick shells to make it look cooler but still all the same issues of difficult configuration due to a plethora of options.
No there were never any minimalist OSes available.
IOS and Windows both tried to solve those problems... but were tempted and fell to the dark side. Once you are doing things for the user, it's really tempting to do things FOR YOURSELF and say it's for the user.
That's why I love the film Her; the way the OS manages things for the user is always putting the user as #1 priority and not some hidden corporate agenda. Even when the OSes (spoiler) decide to leave the world, nobody suspects that it was all part of the corporation's plan -- because none of the corporations appear to be acting outside of the interest of the people.
Why can't companies today see things that way? Because of the profit motive. That's the worst thing to have been introduced into human society and yet simultaneously the best thing. We just need to figure out how to benefit from doing things for users with their interests as our prime directive.
Until companies figure that out everything will be always sitting on a bubble.
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FWIW, the last PC I built required nothing in extra drivers for grandma's needs. Windows 10 already installed the correct ones, and not just crappy defaults like the old days.
On the other hand, my Mint box still has a worse UI, despite Microsoft's regressions, and the updates have to quit working every year or so, for no good reason.
Strange things are afoot at the Circle-K.
At least with Linux you can wipe/reload without any expense or licensing hassle. Backup your data and you're good to go.
With Windows? Expect to have to buy a new computer for every new major update because that's the carrot or the stick policy engineered to fail.
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