>Microsoft's HCCBs absolutely will not be replacing QR codes due to the fact that they are not an encoding format Exactly. It requires that microsoft's server

>Microsoft's HCCBs absolutely will not be replacing QR codes due to the fact that they are not an encoding format Exactly. It requires that microsoft's servers always be reachable (laughable for something you scan with your smartphone), online (this will eventually die), returning the correct data, and they get to harvest statistics. All that, for zero gain?