14 DAY TRIAL // Last week Microsoft Tag shook off its Beta tag, and a new offering is now available from Microsoft based on the company’s high-capacity color bar codes (HCCBs). Following the launch of Microsoft Tag, the Redmond company is now providing customers interested in leveraging the bar-code technology with the guidelines necessary to simplify implementation. The Microsoft Tag Implementation Guidelines have been released last week and are available via the Microsoft Download Center.
“It offers step-by-step instructions and best practices for streamlining the production of Microsoft Tag bar codes, verifying bar code behavior in the field, ensuring a superior user experience, and making the most of Tag reporting tools,” Microsoft reveals in the document. “Everyone creating and working with Tag should read this guide to help ensure smooth and cost-effective Tag creation and implementation.”
The documentation provided by the software giant is designed to offer insight into the Microsoft barcode technology. The Guidelines contain an Overview of Microsoft Tag, and go on to provide comprehensive instructions on how to create basic and custom tags, and how to leverage tags in print and in scenarios involving electronic displays. At the same time, the Guidelines contain a set of Best practices to create quick and easy tags, as well as advanced ones.
“Tag is a high-capacity color barcode (HCCB) with encoded information. Organizations and individuals can create specific Tags by using the Microsoft Tag Manager Web service. When the Microsoft Tag Reader application is installed on a mobile device, the Tag Reader can be used to scan a Tag using the built-in device camera. When a Tag is scanned by the Tag Reader, the information encoded into the Tag becomes available on the mobile device. Although Tags are easy to create, how Tags are placed in the field will influence how effective they are in communicating the encoded information to the audience,” the Redmond company explains.