On Fri, 20 Apr 2007 19:33:51 -0400, Jerry McBride wrote:
>> What's wrong with that? If it holds more information why not upgrade the
>> technology?
>
> But why? BARCODES have been around for decades now... why does Microsoft
> have to push a standard now?? Why now? Is it because they need the money??
Certainly, but industry standard barcodes would require a lot more real
estate to store the same amount of information. It's not just Microsoft
that has seen this problem, there are right now a number of contendors for
higher capacity bar codes. UPS has been using a proprietary one for years.
Why? Because there currently is not an industry standard high capacity bar
code.
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