Bing Vision Now No Longer Offering To Scan Barcodes

It seems Microsoft has something against the Bing Vision team. First they moved access to the app from the search button to the awkwardly accessible camera lens in WP8.1, and now they have removed another significant element of the app, the ability to scan barcodes.

Users are still able to scan QRCodes, but who knows how long this will last.

The removal of these features would not matter so much if Microsoft added them elsewhere, like in Cortana, but I think we have seen over the years that Microsoft has little compunction about removing features users regularly rely on and then leaving them in the lurch for months to years afterwards.

Do our readers regularly use Bing Vision, and have you noticed this newly missing feature? Let us know below.




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1 comments:

  1. Yeah, I noticed it last night. I was trying to scan a card and it took forever, which was strange. Normally, I takes bout 2 seconds. Even after scanning, it said something like "the message of the QR code is ..." Lets hope Microsoft do something better with the removal.

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