A new application has come up for the Google’s Android phone. Microsoft has made it. It is called Tag and it is available free. It is a software that make use of the camera of a handset to turn it into a mobile barcode reader.

Tag software is the first application by Microsoft that has been made for Android operating system, the main rivals to the Windows Mobile.

Tag is already available on the Windows mobile, the iPhone, Symbian and Blackberry handsets. Android is the last one to get this application.

Tag application or similar to this helps in linking people to websites, passes on information or even give a discount to visitors on online stores.

With the launch of the Tag application for Google Android keeps Microsoft to continue making software for the rival phone firm.

Microsoft made the first iPhone app in December 2008 named Seadragon. In 2009 it released the Tag for Apple handset.

Till now Apple has the maximum mobile apps store and the media report says that in early January over three billion applications of Apple were downloaded.

This launch of Microsoft has been made against a background of good and strong co-operation among the operators on mobile phone’s software.

Recently, on 24th of February, the largest mobile network phone operators of the world banded together in developing Wholesale Applications Community and with this it is a try to make it easy for the developers of applications to make as well as sell phone apps.

Microsoft also unveiled recently a revamp of its mobile operating system. It was the most popular Windows Phone 7 Series. Later in 2010 it will be launched for public.