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One of these days, Microsoft is threatening to re-launch "Microsoft Wallet", which is sort of their version of Apple Pay and Android Pay.
Microsoft is getting serious about payments in Windows 10
"... Windows is going to have a wallet concept. You've seen it on phones before. We're going to continue to iterate it," Joe Belfiore, corporate VP of the company's operating systems group, said. "We're going to think about the range of payment scenarios... Mobile payments is a 'massive network of complexity.'"And of course y'all remember Windows Wallet for Windows Phone 8.1, right? What, you don't? LOLWhile Belfiore didn't say when exactly a new wallet would launch, or whether it would utilize NFC or other payment technology, he cited Windows Hello, the company's new facial recognition technology introduced with the Windows 10 operating system, as a good example of the "kind of technology we'll build into devices for authentication to make... payments better." It's likely that any kind of updated Windows Phone payments app would utilize NFC technology, the same tech Windows Wallet for Windows Phone 8.1 was said to use.