Windows Phone 7 and NFC

I'm just back from a Microsoft Days event, with of course the current main Microsoft product at the top: Windows Phone 7. This event was technical and I could discuss shortly with one speaker.

The operating system looks great, performs, with good features. Nothing really new except good integration with other Microsoft product. Which it by itself already a big value.
You can quickly throw four limitation:
- Material is almost imposed by Microsoft. Due to performance.
- You can't create application running as "service", not shown => no code executed
- You can't develop outside DotNet with Silverlight and XNA. No native development, no other runtime or graphical engine.
- You can only deploy the application using the marketplace.

That means company deployment is not possible at this time.
That means innovation will evolve with Microsoft. Hope your physical and system component is already integrated, or even planned. Otherwise you're really stuck. NFC compability is not here, neither planned.

Nokia do research and works on it since more than two years, with already few available phone, Apple just released a NFC reader for iPhone and Google implements NFC technologies into the software through OpenNFC for Android system. Microsoft doesn't event think about it for the latest mobile operating system on the market... And the business can't do it by itself.
I don't know if this eight month old OpenNFC WM7 compability new is still true now. Seems difficult.

End-user is clearly targeted by Windows Phone 7, not the corporate user, and things will probably be unlocked later in the time when feedbacks will come. But time go fast and innovation doesn't wait.

Update January 07, 2011:

Other people can enable NFC on Windows Mobile 6.5 using a NFC sticker which communicate with the phone on bluetooth, see TwinLinx.

For important project under Windows Phone 7, nothing stop you to directly work with the phone manufacturer to add NFC hardware and specific native application. Only available for a minority, but better than nothing :)

Update June 01, 2011:

Windows Phone 7.5 "Mango" Updates should bring NFC support to Windows Phone. Let me see it.

Update October 08, 2011:

And it comes with Windows Phone 8... finally !