POS for .NET 1.11 Releases!!!
At the National Retail Federation show in New York City on Jan 15th we announced plans to release our next version of POS for .NET, and we're happy to announce that it's available today!!
POS for .NET version 1.11 is Microsoft's implementation of the industry's Unified Point of Service (UPOS) version 1.11 standards, for the .NET platform. UPOS is the standards body that specifies the behavior of retail peripherals. POS for .NET version 1.11 is backward-compatible with existing implementations of UPOS on the Microsoft Windows platform, named OLE for Point of Service, or OPOS.
So what's new and exciting about version 1.11?
- Support for version 1.11 of the UPOS specification
- Added device classes for Biometrics, Electronic Journal, Bill Acceptor, Bill Dispenser, Coin Acceptor, and Image Scanner
- Supports the Unified POS v1.11 specification standard changes for ClearInput, SmartCard and Printer base classes
- Supported on Windows XP Pro, WEPOS, Vista Business, and Vista Enterprise
- Based on the .NET Framework version 2.0
- Microsoft Update support
- SDK User Reference Guide
The development team worked very hard on this release and we are excited to make it available to our customers. Please let us know what you think via the comments feature!
This announcement is timely, as we are seeing significant industry support from our Retail OEM, IHV, and ISV partners. To date, more than 60 partners have developed Windows Embedded for Point of Service and/or POS for .NET compatible solutions. Additionally, we currently have over 50 partners working on new Windows Embedded for Point of Service / POS for .NET compatible solutions, giving customers a breadth of point of service solutions to choose from. This includes solutions from POS suppliers, peripheral suppliers and POS application vendors including 360Commerce, BSQUARE, Citizen Systems, Dell, Epicor/CRS, HP, IBM, MICROS, NCR, Sygate, Symbol, M-Systems, Retalix, Wincor-Nixdorf, Fujitsu Transaction Solutions, NEC, Seiko Epson, Star Micronics, Toshiba.
More recently, at the National Retail Federation Tradeshow in New York, Microsoft partners announced their support for the next version of POS for .NET and Windows Embedded for Point of Service. These partners included:
- AuthenTec - offering a biometric solution based on Microsoft's next release of Point of Service for .NET version 1.11
- Hand Held Products - offering a Handheld scanner solution based on Microsoft's next release of Point of Service for .NET version 1.11
- Protech Systems - offering a Windows Embedded for Point of Service-based POS hardware solution
- Posiflex - offering a Windows Embedded for Point of Service-based POS hardware solution, with support for POS for .NET
Thanks again to the whole product team for making this release happen!
- Shayna
Comments
Anonymous
February 15, 2007
cool software but wow, bad choice for an acronym.Anonymous
February 15, 2007
Today our sister team (the Vertical Industries group) announced the release of their latest product,Anonymous
April 09, 2007
I want POS for .NET version 1.0.2.0 where can I download it????????????????Anonymous
April 10, 2007
cn jacky, I'm taking a guess here that you are trying to use the Epson TM-T88III printer and getting an error that it requires that version of POS for .NET? If so, please check out today's newest post on this blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/pointofservice/archive/2007/04/10/issues-with-epson-service-objects-and-net-2-0.aspx) for an update on that issue and a way to work around it.