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No one posted this yet, so sharing.

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/03/14/microsoft-stops-accepting-bitcoin-on-windows-10.html

I was worried when i heard that microsoft stopped accepting bitcoin because bill gates was one of the first who was pro-bitcoin, good news that it is back now accepting bitcoins, maybe they were changing the platform or cold wallets at that time.

Good for them, and good for us.  We have some significant support there.

I didn't hear the news that they stopped accepting bitcoin! Man I was out of the loop for a bit there.

Also, who edits these articles?!

"BitPay did immediately responded to CNBC's requests for comment."

I'm glad BitPay did was on the ball.

Very cool that Microsoft acknowledges this.  The price of btc did not seem to be affected by it anyway. Everyone can relax now.

Let the cat out of the bag to early maybe?
They are not exactly a company known to play nice and woul expect some hijack attempts.

Let's get the PlayStation network next please  :) :)

According to their statement, was just a mistake but clearly it's a lie. What happened was, them turning their heads away and then, the minute everyone found out, they made a U-turn and decided to continue since they probably thought, there's small demand which clearly isn't the case after all. That sort of mistake, doesn't just happen like that, but that's what they want us to believe. Btw, it's still open for US citizens, so not sure why their not expanding it to other countries as well.

This seems like a move to give a final pump to ethereum. No one is there to impede it from falling back to normal levels now.

My thoughts exactly.  I feel like a "mistake" like that just does not happen on a microsoft website.  That would be an huge error simple to avoid for the web content manager.  I didn't think it was a big deal when I first heard about it but now it is interesting.

Microsoft has made panic selling  ;D

Of course they have to do it, it would make a big impact for them if they didn't do it.

Doubt it. I suspect it was a PR move - people like me didn't even know they accepted it in the first place, now I know.

Most users might have got panic and thought why Microsoft has taken such a decision. Today this news might have given them some good hope on the future of bitcoin.

Bitcoin's future has nothing to do with some specific company's decision. Bitcoin will end this block size increase debate and got a consensus solution.

If you believe all the fud and shilling coming from the Ethereum people, they already signed up with Microsoft. The thing is, Bitcoin offer value to Microsoft now, in the form of sales and the widespread adoption of the currency from customers and merchants. This is something that Ethereum does not have. Microsoft will milk the Bitcoin cow, until the Ethereum partnership has grown and then they will dump Bitcoin. They say, Business is Business, right. Just bend over and take it from behind, they have strong market dominance and we must grow faster than all the other competing Alt coins, to have the edge.   

so it was a lie on the web to spread fud, that none was using bitcoin to purchase things on microsoft store

another thing done for pumping ethereum and dumping bitcoin i guess

I didn't really see any panic selling going on after the announcement. Bitcoin seems relatively stable at current price, regardless of news like this.

Also, one (albeit big) company that stops accepting bitcoin should never be a reason for panic selling. Bitcoin has grown beyond that and should be able to cope with it.

Ultimately I think we are all happy to see that Microsoft is still in the bitcoin game regarding accepting bitcoin.

It looks like they just want free publicity from the media, IMO. But still it is a good thing that there is still a big company such as Microsoft that support Bitcoin.

ah thanks god,good news for today,yesterday i found thread that said microsoft windows 10 store not accept bitcoin anymore,and now its been clear,microsoft apologize for that mistake.

This doesn't really effect me. I don't pay for office with Bitcoin. I don't just have Bitcoin and I don't think you guys only have Bitcoin. But this is definitely nice to see this though.

I already was in shock because of this, I thought they really stopped, and the fact is also that I use it often to buy games these days for my xbox.
So I'm happy it was just a mistake they have made.

It probably was an employee that is taking care of their website that tried to spread some fud to get the price down. #FailedAttempt.

Good news then, as one of the biggest software comapany I do believe that they help spread about the use of bitcoin.They have a great influence and will encourage other merchants to do same,that is to accept this bitcoin payment.

https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/microsoft-apologizes-bitcoin-still-accepted/

Sb tried to buy cheap ?

Noticing this more and more on some of the large websites, it is just laziness in not checking articles before they are posted.

I suppose because they can easily go back in and adjust them if the need be whereas in the olden days when we just had old fashioned print it was a lot harder to amend.

Regarding Microsoft, I did hear that they stopped which was a bit crazy but glad to hear they are back on board.

yea thats good news for us i think . they support digital payment revolution
or maybe billgates already invest alot money too in bitcoin  ;D

Lol, I was not even aware of the fact that you could buy things like that with btc xD

this is a little bit confused, why did not a huge company like Microsoft study their decision well in the first time instead of making two opposite decisions in short time ! they should be more professional than this

Yeah but it didn't worked out.
Bitcoin price showed absolutely no reaction.Honey badger doesn't care right. :D
And in case of Eth I'm not sure if there was a big increase due to that news.

But this definitely was some nice free advertisement for Bitcoin.
Some people might have thought:"What Microsoft supported Bitcoin?Didn't know that.Can't be that bad this crypto stuff."
And now where MS has corrected their "mistake" these people who now have heard the first time of BTC might get cautious and do some research. So I see this as a win-win to both news.

Sure.
Definitely possible that not many Bitcoiners weren't aware of that MS accepts Bitcoin as payment solution.
Not everyone in the btc space is hanging out in the forums or reddit.

As an apologize they should send a few btc to every bitcoiner !

honestly it does not affect anything for me because i was never using my bitcoin to buy something on Microsoft but i'm so glad for this because big company such Microsoft decide they will still accept bitcoin

Microsoft dropping the ball like that seems highly unlikely... there are definitely a story behind the story. They are just testing the water to see if there are still people using this option, and if there are

not a public outcry from the people, they would know that it's not worth the effort. I see no reason for them not to accept multiple currencies, because in the end they convert everything into fiat any

way. Bitcoin just opens up a new form of revenue for them, that was previously not accessible.  ::)

found another similar article here http://techcrunch.com/2016/03/14/microsoft-quietly-drops-bitcoin-support-from-the-windows-store/
posted in the forum.

Apparently that news is false, Microsoft still accepts Bitcoin in their stores
So it looks like the guy who wrote that article is spreading false information and it got spread around the internet causing this ruckus ::)
Good thing they still accepts it in the end though :)
Though i never use Microsoft store except for one software that i always wanted to use :P


Why would test it like that though, it was too risky move
Don't they have a statistics on how many people used Bitcoin as payment ::)
No need to pull the support and then later saying "It was a mistake" when they have a better way than that

maybe it is because you don't check social media as much as the rest of us.

i read here and reddit/r/bitcoin, cryptocurrency,.... and i though the same as Blind Legs Parker, even if it wasn't a plot to pump, the pumpers used (and still using) it to pump ETH

I was already worrying about the fact that they are not accepting it anymore but it was just a mistake luckily.
I mostly buy apps in the windows store and I must say I really found it nice from Microsoft they did it.

Microsoft might have clarified, but the problem is many media outlets carried the original news.
They may not take the pains to issue a correction.

They should be more careful on making such announcements, Just sound bad IMO.

what you are saying is correct , it may be right also that microsoft wanted the world to know that they are also dealing in bitcoin as payment for their products for this only this false news have been spread. As i also just came to know about microsoft accepting bitcoin as payment.

Thank you Microsoft! Thank you for clearing up the news and still accepting Bitcoin! I hope that Microsoft will continue to support Bitcoin and not just the Blockchain system.

Yes agree with what others said, this is a good piece of news. :).

If we look into the interest of people in adopting bitcoin, then we can realize that sooner bitcoin will establish and take over the whole internet and business on it. Microsoft too must have realized this and reversed it's decision.  ;D