Microsoft's QR Code Competitor Tag to Shut Down

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CommanderFrank

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Microsoft’s foray into the world of tag service has come to an end….in a manner of speaking. Microsoft is handing in its two-year notice on shutting down its less than stellar received Tag Service.

The fact that QR codes have failed to grow all that much in popularity, the closure of an alternative is hardly surprising.
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Not sure why MS needed to have it's version. It's like saying "lets come up with a different version of the bar code... no it's not going to be any better, it's basically does the same thing but it's ours!"
 
A long long time ago during the Windows Mobile days a couple reasons why they were developed.

1) Cellphone cameras in America really sucked compared to the ones in Japan.

- Now for the most part phones are capable of reading QR as they can take photos without things looking like mud.

2) Data size. With this color code you were able to fit more data in the same area.

- Now the buzzword is cloud.

So yeah that was the reasoning. They really did look into using QR code. They made a few beta apps out there and promptly took them out in the back and shot them after they came out with their own standard.

Whatever crack the department that came up with the concept that it would take off needs to be fired.
 
MS really needs to get another CEO.....it's been a pretty consistent stream of FAIL the last few years.
 
You do know that Microsoft bought their way into the console business.

That is what they do. They are followers, not leaders.
 
The value of tag was never in the code itself or readability, it was always about their analytics.

Unlike qrcodes the tags aren't typically storing any more data than an identifier that the app sends off to msft (along with phone info, location info in some instances, or more) in order to get the tags value... there are a few companies that do similar things for qrcodes using short URLs, but its not really in the spec itself. No one wanted to be locked in to msft to get that value I guess.
 
BladeVenom said:
True, but they use to be able to eventually catch up and pass up their competition. Now they just fail.
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The only time MS has really excelled historically speaking was when there was no competition. Xbox is an oddball because its arguable that they've passed anyone given the span of its existence still has it deeply in the red to the tune of billions.
 
DPI said:
The only time MS has really excelled historically speaking was when there was no competition. Xbox is an oddball because its arguable that they've passed anyone given the span of its existence still has it deeply in the red to the tune of billions.
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Server operating systems were already in place when MS started doing that sort of stuff too. :) Also, Hotmail/Live/Outlook are pretty big...though they did buy Hotmail instead of making it themselves. Don't forget that Bing is doing pretty well too and has taken a lot of search away from Google. I think they're at 25% and are still gaining which equates to successful competition.
 
DPI said:
The only time MS has really excelled historically speaking was when there was no competition. Xbox is an oddball because its arguable that they've passed anyone given the span of its existence still has it deeply in the red to the tune of billions.
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Windows and Office both competed against successful and established competition.
 
DocFaustus said:
huh?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netscape_Navigator

The people that made Netscape charged monies for you to use it. Microsoft gave Internet Explorer away for free and it basically made Netscape go poof and disappear. And the Netscape people initially said they were going to give it away for free, but went back on that before it was released...or something. It makes them evil, just like the people that make Firefox and Chrome.
 
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