Microsoft is not accepting bitcoin anymore ?

[Kprawn]

Knowing Microsoft's history, they have something up their sleeve, and I guess it's their own version of the "private blockchains" popping up everywhere. Bill Gates has no more say

in the company decisions being made, even though he supports the idea. The pressure from banks and PayPal can also not be discounted as a possible reason.

Microsoft has always been a Honeypot for USA security agencies anyway... Most of the US companies are closely linked to the US government. The recent classification of

Bitcoin as a commodity and not a currency in a sense, might just have a influence too.  

[knowhow]

The reason behing such action can be the low interest on using bitcoin as most of us are saving bitcoin waiting it get more value and just a few spending it,openbazar should show what will happen.

[gentlemand]

BTW, is it possible to original get windows 10 pro for $10 only? I saw few people sell it here

They're usually selling keys from MSDN accounts. These aren't supposed to be resold by account holders and they'll stop working if the account is closed. You might get lucky and it'll stay activated. You may well not and your activation might only last a few weeks or months.

[EastKing]

The reason behing such action can be the low interest on using bitcoin as most of us are saving bitcoin waiting it get more value and just a few spending it,openbazar should show what will happen.

Yes. "most of us are saving bitcoin waiting it get more value", but there are still many people use bitcoin to purchase goods. If salary is paid with bitcoin, it is better for bitcoin as a currency.

[1Referee]

The reason behing such action can be the low interest on using bitcoin as most of us are saving bitcoin waiting it get more value and just a few spending it,openbazar should show what will happen.

Yes. "most of us are saving bitcoin waiting it get more value", but there are still many people use bitcoin to purchase goods. If salary is paid with bitcoin, it is better for bitcoin as a currency.

It's normal that the majority of people solely buy Bitcoins for investment purposes. They are hoping for something similar to happen as in 2013 when the price went to over $1000. I'm sure with major internet companies such as Amazon and Ebay on board where they are offering Bitcoin payments, people would be more likely to spend their coins.

[SerenaL]

Perhaps they were not getting enough sales so they scrapped the idea.

[eternalgloom]

I read an article a while back about BitPay getting hacked and laying off a bunch of people. Part of the article was about them losing merchants too. I think the reason given was the inability of merchants to give refunds back to customers because the transaction is irreversible. The only way the merchant could give a refund was to wait for the transaction to clear then refund in fiat and pay any fees out of pocket. Maybe that's what happened to Microsoft.

Interesting, if this is true, I could see more merchants that stop accepting Bitcoin payments.

[lumeire]

Perhaps they were not getting enough sales so they scrapped the idea.

The thing is it only costs so little to keep accepting bitcoin as a payment option. Why would they remove something that gives their customers more choices to reach their products and a far better customer experience?

[erikalui]

What's the reason for removing bitcoin as a payment option? It should be back soon as even I need to purchase a license key of Microsoft Office 2013 and checked that they removed bitcoin payment method from the list

[Amph]

What's the reason for removing bitcoin as a payment option? It should be back soon as even I need to purchase a license key of Microsoft Office 2013 and checked that they removed bitcoin payment method from the list

probably few people were using it, and the whole point of accepting bitcoin is hoping that someone use it, otherwise it's better to remove it

people are already aware about bitcin, but they choose deliberately to not use it

[okae]

the question here is, why would anyone want to buy something from microsoft?

nah seriously, i'm sure that they remove it because few/none people were using it, strange but true, maybe 2015 is not a good year to sold his products for bitcoin, but believe me, soon it will change

[kolloh]

the question here is, why would anyone want to buy something from microsoft?

nah seriously, i'm sure that they remove it because few/none people were using it, strange but true, maybe 2015 is not a good year to sold his products for bitcoin, but believe me, soon it will change

Yeah, if there was not enough interest, it could be more work than it was worth for them to upkeep the APIs and such.

[Febo]

the question here is, why would anyone want to buy something from microsoft?

nah seriously, i'm sure that they remove it because few/none people were using it, strange but true, maybe 2015 is not a good year to sold his products for bitcoin, but believe me, soon it will change

But you should look on it from opposite way. 2015 was godo year to spend Bitcoins. So people would buy mountain of Microsoft products for Bitcoin. In 2016 when price wil styrt climbing peopel will rather hold bitcoins and pay with fiat.

[Supercrypt]

the question here is, why would anyone want to buy something from microsoft?

nah seriously, i'm sure that they remove it because few/none people were using it, strange but true, maybe 2015 is not a good year to sold his products for bitcoin, but believe me, soon it will change

But you should look on it from opposite way. 2015 was godo year to spend Bitcoins. So people would buy mountain of Microsoft products for Bitcoin. In 2016 when price wil styrt climbing peopel will rather hold bitcoins and pay with fiat.

Good perspective. For the spending year we had option of bitcoin to buy microsoft products.I believe in 2016 also with higer prices more people will buy more things with less amount of satoshi comparatively if the prices will be peaking in 2016.

[knowhow]

What's the reason for removing bitcoin as a payment option? It should be back soon as even I need to purchase a license key of Microsoft Office 2013 and checked that they removed bitcoin payment method from the list

Microsoft option to pay with bitcoin for sure were an advantage to us,but we will have an marketing to buy and sell all for bitcoins ,openbazar can bring others companies to accept bitcoin as i know at openbazar will be only bitcoin payments.

[mallard]

even they can go anonymous with bitcoin

Are you sure?
I thought when you did anything with Microsoft they asked a few intrusive questions.

[7788bitcoin]

No worries. I am very soon they will embrace bitcoin and perhaps integrate bitcoin in their latest windows??

[neurotypical]

It's funny to see companies going back and for with their Bitcoin approval. Thing is so new and disruptive, that they have second thoughts all the time. In no time we will see them accepting it again once other companies accept it. They are coward pussies that backed off thinking "maybe we were to quick to accept this, let's wait to see what happens".

[richardsNY]

No worries. I am very soon they will embrace bitcoin and perhaps integrate bitcoin in their latest windows??

Can't see them accept Bitcoin payments for anything other than xbox subscribtions, etc, at this point. I am more interested to know the reason for not accepting Bitcoin anymore.

[mallard]

No worries. I am very soon they will embrace bitcoin and perhaps integrate bitcoin in their latest windows??

Microsoft bundling a Bitcoin client with Windows would be very bad.

• It probably violates anti-trust laws, previously Microsoft got into a lot of trouble for including Internet Explorer with Windows.
• The client they ship with Windows may be backdoored/bugged/insecure.
• It's not good to have a single client that everybody uses.