Shelly Palmer

Citing 2% smartphone market share, Microsoft pushes NFC as larger Windows component

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In a keynote at the NFC World Congress, Microsoft detailed its Windows Phone 8 push to use the technology, in the process highlighting that Windows 8 itself is the de facto larger piece of its efforts. As reported in NFCWorld, Microsoft is cognizant of its minor footprint in smartphones, but fully aware of what Windows 8 could mean for NFC technology, which is baked into the forthcoming desktop operating system: “While I’m not the biggest phone operating system, we are the biggest computer operating system. […] It’s not just a phone with 2% market share. It’s Windows.” Read the full story at The Next Web.