After years of being decked out in monochromatic stripes, the bar code is going color. The bar code has already undergone some changes. Though the standard, striped variety is still ubiquitous on ...

Software maker is licensing a new format that uses colorful triangles, rather than black and white lines, to pack more data into less space. Images: Microsoft's multicolor bar code During her years at ...

What is it with Microsoft? They can't seem to support any standard unless it's their own. PlaysForSure, Office Open XML, heck, it seems that only Sony is as obsessed with proprietary formats. Now the ...

Microsoft Tag, the company's colorful take on QR codes is no more. Launched in 2009, the little-known service was supposed to be the software giant's answer to traditional bar codes, black-and-white ...