Microsoft Excel supporting Bitcoin !

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Quote from: OmegaStarScream on January 02, 2017, 02:25:21 AM

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...

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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.

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Quote from: OmegaStarScream on January 03, 2017, 12:16:14 AM

Quote from: veleten on January 02, 2017, 11:34:43 AM

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

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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.

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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

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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.

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Quote from: staceyoh on January 03, 2017, 12:47:14 AM

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.

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Quote from: OmegaStarScream on January 02, 2017, 02:25:21 AM

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. Grin

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

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

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It's all about recognition. Microsoft is huge company and if it is trying to do something like this then it means that they are getting to know the value of BTC

On the other hand, Google or as we know Alphabet, yet needs to know about BTC

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It's a great news indeed. Big company backing bitcoin is something that could help the economy of bitcoin to boost. Good news will keep coming for the year 2017 as we started it with a great success upon reaching the $1,000 level.

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Quote from: veleten on January 02, 2017, 11:34:43 AM

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.

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Quote from: GMPoison on January 02, 2017, 11:52:53 PM

Quote from: MingLee on January 02, 2017, 11:47:08 PM

I think that I might actually decide to go and buy office for one of the first times in my life, to be honest. Considering they're opening up different payment plans and their software is actually very good for its purpose (especially excel), it might be worth the investment.

I might need to get some books on how to best use Excel, but there might be some good resources online. I don't have much of a use for word or powerpoint though.

That's exactly what we need to. If a company decides to accept bitcoin as payment, we need to show support and buy those products versus shopping somewhere else and using fiat.

yes by showing our support will allow more people to use the process i guess its another good update for all of us who believes on this project bitcoin is an easy transaction so they just need to know about how convenient it is then for sure many shoppers will also use this transaction process, glad to see microsoft excel then many more to come.

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Quote from: MingLee on January 02, 2017, 11:47:08 PM

I think that I might actually decide to go and buy office for one of the first times in my life, to be honest. Considering they're opening up different payment plans and their software is actually very good for its purpose (especially excel), it might be worth the investment.

I might need to get some books on how to best use Excel, but there might be some good resources online. I don't have much of a use for word or powerpoint though.

That's exactly what we need to. If a company decides to accept bitcoin as payment, we need to show support and buy those products versus shopping somewhere else and using fiat.

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I think that I might actually decide to go and buy office for one of the first times in my life, to be honest. Considering they're opening up different payment plans and their software is actually very good for its purpose (especially excel), it might be worth the investment.

I might need to get some books on how to best use Excel, but there might be some good resources online. I don't have much of a use for word or powerpoint though.

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Keep giving it time, we'll see more and more adoption. It's great that out of all companies that could be supporting the technology, it's Microsoft. Absolutely awesome.

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Quote from: OmegaStarScream on January 02, 2017, 02:25:21 AM

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/

The sounds great, hopefully, other biggest companies will starting for seeing the advantages of bitcoin soon,

But Microsoft has made the best step at this time. Totally they try to explore about the another potentially of bitcoin. I may use it soon, and interesting for see it.

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Quote from: BrewMaster on January 02, 2017, 12:49:44 PM

Quote from: veleten on January 02, 2017, 11:34:43 AM

is it me or Microsoft has been supporting bitcoin payments since like 2014?

i am not sure about the exact time they started it but yeah they have been having bitcoin payment for a long time.

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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

that would be a dream come true. google adding bitcoin payment to Adsense is more than huge, it is ultra gigantic Cheesy

we only can wait for next news from microsoft and maybe microsoft is the big owner of bitcoin that we don't know so they want to supporting bitcoin. if google adsense is accepting bitcoin as the payments, then it will explode because as far as i know, google adsense is the best programs that is really recommended by most people in online publisher.

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just reminder this is old news, i read the news arround mid 2016
hope microsoft can realize it Roll Eyes

source : https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/microsoft-excel-support-bitcoin-currency/

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I think this is almost as big of news as unicode support

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