@Zero_Democracy Yes.
Also it didn't HAVE to be color-dependent, actually. http://www.istartedsomething.com/20090109/hacking-microsoft-tags-hccb-works-monochrome-too/
@sc MS is so weird. They get like 75% of the way through doing something cool and then never stick the landing.
@Zero_Democracy
see also:
Windows XP Tablet PCs
Windows Vista
Windows Longhorn
Windows Phone
Windows 8
@sc The Kin phone is one of my favorite examples. They were really close to releasing an inexpensive smartphone geared for social media use in 2010... and then completely mismanaged the software side of it because the original project manager didn't "believe" in it enough.
@sc Oh, huh, so they were *the* polygonal QR code. I thought they were a riff on them.