Microsoft Excel supporting Bitcoin !

[staceyoh]

That's Great news.I hope more
Big companies will support bitcoin.

[davis196]

Microsoft is working on BitCoin format support in Excel. When this feature becomes available, users can use Excel to track, calculate and analyze Bitcoin data using native Bitcoin number formatting options. This new feature will be first rolled out to Excel 2016 for Windows, Excel Online, Excel Mobile for Windows and Excel Mobile for Android.

This feature is expected to be available in the first half of 2017, both cointelegraph and MSPowerUser talked about this.

https://mspoweruser.com/bitcoin-currency-format-support-coming-soon-microsoft-excel-desktop-mobile/

We all know that Microsoft is one of the internet giants (or perhaps the only one) that supports bitcoin.

This is good news for both bitcoin and Excel users.

I don`t use Excel,so i don`t care that much.

[mrkevio]

That's Great news.I hope more
Big companies will support bitcoin.

Doesn't matter if it doesn't get featured. Maybe out of a hundred people, 1-2 will talk about it to someone but it isn't published anywhere. If we want more people to join our community, we need advertisements. An anonymous said he'll invest $1.000.000 in Bitcoin, but nobody knows whether he was for real or not - I don't have the link anymore.

[bamboylee]

Not much is said in the article but what I get from it is there will be a format dedicated for bitcoin. Even if excel will allow to format number to show BTC on numbers, I think this does not have much effect on people who is still not familiar with bitcoin. It will not draw in new members but is still a welcome change. Software company recognizing bitcoin is a positive development. Thank you Microsoft.

[xuan87]

If this really implemented, it will really boost the bitcoin reputation and more user will acknowledge bitcoin, for sure this is a great news and great way to promote bitcoin, hopefully other software also will consider to implemented or at least introduce bitcoin, and hopefully this is s good sign that microsoft is going to adapt bitcoin or become bitcoin investor

[marcoman22]

Microsoft has started showing in bitcoins and its a tremendous improvement in bitcoin progress.Microsoft has understood about the worth bitcoin has and thats why it has adapted its policy in favour of bitcoins. Both would be mutually benefited, bitcoin would start getting more popular and microsoft would get more bitcoin users as customers.

[veleten]

is it me or Microsoft has been supporting bitcoin payments since like 2014?
and yes,Microsoft Excel integration is going to be huge,going to put bitcoin out there for general public
next step is Google Adsense introducing bitcoin payments

I doubt that Google Adsense will do that , Google never spoke about bitcoin and never showed the intention of adding it in the future and chances are very low , I mean they didn't even add PayPal which is considered probably the most used payment method so I doubt they will add BTC or any other decentralized crypto currency.

yeah,of course they would not
thats why I put a smiley there-Google won't be interested in adding bitcoin ...unless it brings them huge profits or there is a high demand for this and they
would not be able to ignore it anymore
but we all can dream,with further adoption it is possible even if not this or next year,somewhere 2020ish
every industry giant adding bitcoin is a big step towards global bitcoin recognition as an alternative to banks and fiat money

[Oggy1987]

Its all Bitcoin ever need, big companies to start recognising it. More and more people get involved, more will bitcoin be worth.

I think we passed times when people thought its a big scam, sure there are still people who think that way, but bitcoin grew much. Not only in value, but in all other things such as media and people talking about it.

[olubams]

Microsoft is working on BitCoin format support in Excel. When this feature becomes available, users can use Excel to track, calculate and analyze Bitcoin data using native Bitcoin number formatting options. This new feature will be first rolled out to Excel 2016 for Windows, Excel Online, Excel Mobile for Windows and Excel Mobile for Android.

This feature is expected to be available in the first half of 2017, both cointelegraph and MSPowerUser talked about this.

https://mspoweruser.com/bitcoin-currency-format-support-coming-soon-microsoft-excel-desktop-mobile/

This is an interesting news for financial analysts and its also good that the popularity of bitcoin is actually getting the people or organizations that matter. With my little knowledge of Excel which to my understanding, is more or less the basis of all financial models and experts around the world believes so, then this new feature will even get audience among the analysts that will arose another discussion in that regard. Good news all the way...