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On its official windows website Microsoft announced that it will no longer accept Bitcoin for payments in their Windows 10 and Windows 10 Mobile. The existing BitcoinCT r:  8 balances can still be used for payments, though.

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However, recently, Microsoft’s interest had changed its focus from Bitcoin to Blockchain, the distributed ledger system on which Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are built.

Microsoft is building what it is terming a “certified blockchain marketplace” on its cloud computing platform, Microsoft Azure where the participants will have to undergo rigorous testing.

Article and bill gates statement on 2014 about bitcoin here : http://cointelegraph.com/news/microsoft-store-to-not-accept-bitcoin-anymore

I'm not sure what you think but ... It's their loss .

Next they'll start taking eth as payment.. this is the end.. sell all your btc now and buy eth or regret it for the rest of your life!!!
 ;D

No link but btc may be dying and bill gates knows.

Bitcoin is now pushed as a settlement system and not anymore as a p2p money, what did you expect?

i think it is because they have been supporting a couple of altcoins for a while.

i can't quite remember all the names of the coins (they are at least 4 coins) but you can find them in altcoin section, i can tell you one thing though it is not ETH.

I can't believe that Microsoft stop supporting Bitcoin and started to think of ways to use the Blockchain for their own advantage. I deeply hope that they will consider taking in Bitcoin as payment again.

http://bravenewcoin.com/news/bitshares-price-jump-follows-microsoft-azure-addition/

I hear that they will be taking eth as payment starting monday.
I guess we'll see in a day or so.

Ey the pumper king shows up here.
Well now I know I will not touch that alt for a long while.
Dumping starts tomorrow or next week when finex opens gates?! :D

Nahh its gonna have to take some time pumping on finnex to trap the longs.. im sure we'll see a huge pump on finnex for a few days, let the order books fill up and then let the games begin.

That is how business goes.
Nobody will ever do you a favour just like that, especially of you could be a potential threat.
But don't worry too much.Microsoft accepting Bitcoin or not isn't that much of important.
Let them deal and play with their closed permission stuff.

This is more like Microsoft's loss in long term.
I could understand if they never accepted btc as payment, but once accepted and rejected now (its even more strong now) seems illogical.

Bitcoin was meant to be p2p money. Satoshi said that it can overtake visa in transaction volume. Where did you get this settlement thing? From Blockstream and core propaganda?

The shilling and ETH pumping is getting ridiculous on this forum and they will do anything to make ETH look good and Bitcoin look bad. Microsoft has been jumping from on thing to the next for months

and they can support what they want. If Bitcoin becomes the de facto currency, they will not have a choice other than accepting it and they will dump ETH like it was a rabbit dog. They are looking for

a currency they can manipulate and people they can manipulate to do what they want. It's all about control... and they have zero control over Bitcoin.

Why exactly bitcoin could be a threat to Microsoft?
It is just crypto currency while Microsoft is IT company. I don't see how Bitcoin can influence Microsoft in any way, not to mention be a threat to them.

This was predictable. There were some who have paid in Bitcoin but certainly not enough to work profitable. To maintain the BTC payment infrastructure costs money and resources. The step towards blockchain instead Bitcoin makes sense for M$.

Whats ridiculous is how now you are complaining about microsoft jumping from project to project... hey dude.. microsoft made billions, they have a right to do what they want, dont ya think?

People really need to stop being hyperbolic about this. Things are simple in the Business world: If you don't get enough customers that pay with Bitcoin, you drop it eventually. Why would they bother if they can't generate many sales?

It isn't.

If profit is the main agenda, possibly.

That's exactly where he got it from since he is in support of a controversial HF.

Just avoid anything Microsoft develops or finances. You know that they will just use it to harvest information and restrict your rights and usage. They are involved with Etherium, and for that reason, Etherium should be avoided imho.

Microsoft is an incorporated company, not a charity organization. All they do with Bitcoin and blockchain is aiming to make profits.

MSFT rather owns already a bunch of ETH than BTC. So it is just logic they push what?

Don't trust any coin without hard coin cap. The reason behind recent popularity of ethereum is maybe that people think that it will be bitcoin 2.0 and while price is still low they w want to buy it to be part of another bitcoin like price rise.

I don't care much about acceptance of Microsoft, but this info will probably cause rumors about bitcoin (and we already see them spreading) and eventually bitcoin price will drop.

So what, let them move on, if bitcoin needs the approval of the large corperations to succeed then it is a failed project anyway, i dont believe it does. ;D

i think you're talking about this, it's not about payment option for ethereum

http://www.coindesk.com/microsoft-ethereum-startup-blockchain/

Nope... talking about funding a microsoft account with eth... coming soon. stay tuned!
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did they give a reason??

they must have somthing planed ( seriously doubt they would favor ETH over BTC ... somthing else planned...), maybe they plan to try and compete with BTC?

" MircoCoin, a blockchain not afraid of processing billion of micro transactions pre day " - MicroSoft 2017 ???

why would you seriously doubt that????
They are already using eth on the azure platform, not btc...

all the signs are clear dude, just look up and read them.

IDK ETH is gas not money, it would be ODD for them to favor ETH over BTC for funding accounts.

can you post a link?

i guess its possible, i mean they MUST have a good reason for taking the time to scrap all the work they did to accept bitcoin

Microsoft is the one who lose from this decision because they are gonna lose a part from their customers!
maybe they are planning to release their own token and they stopped accepting bitcoin before doing that

Sorry, impossible to link a rumor

well there involvement with ETH isn't a rumor can you link that so i can better understand what they have to do with ETH.

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/ethereum-blockchain-as-a-service-now-on-azure/

well then...

I just found this thread so continue discussion there : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1399169.0;topicseen (It's seems like they still accept Bitcoin after all)