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Microsoft Now Accepts Bitcoin

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Microsoft Now Accepts Bitcoin - TechRaptor

Microsoft has joined the group of company’s that accept the online currency Bitcoin – adding their substantial weight to the young currency’s legitimacy. Microsoft is far from the first, following in the tracks of companies such as Paypal, Warner Bros Records, and Overstock, but Microsoft is the largest to embrace the online coin. Like the others there, it will be using BitPay to process the Bitcoin payments.
That’s not to say though that Microsoft is jumping in head first – they are dipping their toes in too begin with. Microsoft is starting with only accepting them for online, digital goods in a bit of a circular method. You won’t be buying services or physical copy’s but phone apps or XBox Live games are good to go. It is also only currently available to those in the United States, probably while they see what the demand is and work out the kinks in the system.


I wasn't very pro-bitcoin and still ain't. I see it as a money laundering scheme and the avenue for criminals to purchase and transfer money for all sort of criminal activities and unless it gets fixed, what's the point of having it? It's no better than normal currency, indeed, with a few more chinks that normal currency.


Anyway. Microsoft started accepting them for some online/digital services in the USA alone so yeah... we'll see where it goes. They are trying to get a piece of a bitcoin paying market that has been growing very much in the past 2 years.
 
Microsoft Now Accepts Bitcoin - TechRaptor





I wasn't very pro-bitcoin and still ain't. I see it as a money laundering scheme and the avenue for criminals to purchase and transfer money for all sort of criminal activities and unless it gets fixed, what's the point of having it? It's no better than normal currency, indeed, with a few more chinks that normal currency.


Anyway. Microsoft started accepting them for some online/digital services in the USA alone so yeah... we'll see where it goes. They are trying to get a piece of a bitcoin paying market that has been growing very much in the past 2 years.

So basically they are only accepting it for those things that don't cost the company anything anyway. Sounds more like a backhanded way of saying they are worthless, but either way, I bet you can get lots of games for 1 bitcoin.
 
Bound to happen at some point. Bitcoin for all of its faults has to eventually be accepted by the likes of Microsoft, Apple, and a host of others who will eventually make the same decision (probably for the same reasons.) It is their right, I have no issue with it.
 
It's better for MS than it is for BC. MS has a bad image since Windows 8. So they are trying to rebrand as services and devices company. Backing the latest and greatest is something that they have needed to work on for a long time, and now it's finally happening. They beat apple with the watch and bitcoins. Surface is 10X better than any Mac desktop/laptop and you can do more on it than iPads. What next? VR? High tech password system? The sky is the limit for MS! Way to go.

Though, is it lost on them that MS software is among the most pirated software in the world?

Either way, BC is extremely pleased and excited about the partnership! I would be too, this is huge! BitPay: Microsoft Has Aggressive Global Vision for Bitcoin
 
Microsoft Now Accepts Bitcoin - TechRaptor



I wasn't very pro-bitcoin and still ain't. I see it as a money laundering scheme and the avenue for criminals to purchase and transfer money for all sort of criminal activities and unless it gets fixed, what's the point of having it? It's no better than normal currency, indeed, with a few more chinks that normal currency.


Anyway. Microsoft started accepting them for some online/digital services in the USA alone so yeah... we'll see where it goes. They are trying to get a piece of a bitcoin paying market that has been growing very much in the past 2 years.


Good for them, and anyone else stupid enough to still use MS software products.
 
Good for them, and anyone else stupid enough to still use MS software products.

So every business in America except Hollywood and small design firms are stupid? No one uses Linux in their offices. Unless for server purposes.
 
I'm kind of on the fence about Bitcoin. I like that it's an alternative to the corrupt central banking system, but I'm not sure how sustainable cryptocurrency would be in the long run. Especially if we were to have a solar flare, an EMP, or even a simple virus. It seems rather volatile. With that being said, I would definitely like to see how this pans out. This is the technology of the future and it can make or break us.
 
So every business in America except Hollywood and small design firms are stupid? No one uses Linux in their offices. Unless for server purposes.

If they us MS, then yes, and they deserve every virus and hack they get plus all the costs associated with security.

But then, everyone who ever pulled or marked for a Dem in anything but very local elections are also dumbasses, so there being a large number, even a majority, shouldn't be a surprise.
 
Bitcoin certainly isn't perfect but there are advantages to using in online purchases for both the customer and merchant. On the customer side you don't have to worry about identity theft or someone getting credit card number. You can buy services anonymously, for which there are legal reasons.

As for the merchant once the transaction is made it can't be reversed. No bounced checks, no credit card charge backs.

It is basically the closest online equivalent to cash.

In the brick and mortar world it certainly has its drawbacks, though.
 
I'm kind of on the fence about Bitcoin. I like that it's an alternative to the corrupt central banking system, but I'm not sure how sustainable cryptocurrency would be in the long run. Especially if we were to have a solar flare, an EMP, or even a simple virus. It seems rather volatile. With that being said, I would definitely like to see how this pans out. This is the technology of the future and it can make or break us.

Bitcoin has been hit hard numerous times and it doesn't take anything remotely as drastic as a solar flare or an EMP.

It's not "rather" volatile. It's atrociously volatile, and nobody with any ****ing sense would trade American dollars for frigging bitcoins.
 
Don't know anything about bitcoin. Can I buy gold with it?
 
Don't know anything about bitcoin. Can I buy gold with it?

There's another investment I've never really understood. For the doomsday prepper types, I mean. It's a shiny rock with a few niche industrial and vanity uses, all of which basically vanish if the dollar/economy/civilization collapses. You can't eat it, you can't make anything useful with it, and nobody is going to want it more than things you can eat, drink, live in, or defend yourself with. It was a currency for a long time basically because it was both rare and useless.
 
Bitcoin has been hit hard numerous times and it doesn't take anything remotely as drastic as a solar flare or an EMP.

It's not "rather" volatile. It's atrociously volatile, and nobody with any ****ing sense would trade American dollars for frigging bitcoins.

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There's another investment I've never really understood. For the doomsday prepper types, I mean. It's a shiny rock with a few niche industrial and vanity uses, all of which basically vanish if the dollar/economy/civilization collapses. You can't eat it, you can't make anything useful with it, and nobody is going to want it more than things you can eat, drink, live in, or defend yourself with. It was a currency for a long time basically because it was both rare and useless.

Oh, I'm not a prepper or anything like that, but gold has value right now and it's probably a safer bet than bitcoin.
 
Oh, I'm not a prepper or anything like that, but gold has value right now and it's probably a safer bet than bitcoin.

Right. You can buy gold with the intention of selling it later for more dollars than you bought it for. That's a way better idea than bitcoin.

Just don't buy gold because a TV commercial told you to. "We have this big stock of gold and it's going to go way up in value, so obviously what my company wants to do is sell it to you because we hate making money!"
 
If they us MS, then yes, and they deserve every virus and hack they get plus all the costs associated with security.

But then, everyone who ever pulled or marked for a Dem in anything but very local elections are also dumbasses, so there being a large number, even a majority, shouldn't be a surprise.

A regular office worker would not know how to use linux. They would freak out and many business software would not be compatible.
Most viruses happen due to outdated security systems. Not using new MS softwares.

Wow you really have political tunnel vision don't you? No one is talking about politics here. Now that you mention it, Bitcoins have been used in political donations for public elections so why not MS use it?
 
Good for them, and anyone else stupid enough to still use MS software products.

Apparently you consier the great majority of people to be stupid? No arrogance there, huh? This post was composed on and sent from a Linux computer.
 
Apparently you consier the great majority of people to be stupid? No arrogance there, huh? This post was composed on and sent from a Linux computer.

Think? Obama in the white house and most pc using windows, evidence that leads to that consideration. Hardly arrogance to consider the facts and draw a conclusion.
 
Think? Obama in the white house and most pc using windows, evidence that leads to that consideration. Hardly arrogance to consider the facts and draw a conclusion.

It takes a special kind of stupid to somehow draw some parallel between Microsoft's dominance of the operating system market and Obama. It truly does.
 
A regular office worker would not know how to use linux. They would freak out and many business software would not be compatible.
Most viruses happen due to outdated security systems. Not using new MS softwares.

Wow you really have political tunnel vision don't you? No one is talking about politics here. Now that you mention it, Bitcoins have been used in political donations for public elections so why not MS use it?

Then time to hire new office workers if they are really that dumb. BTW, at the user level, there is very little difference in how things are accessed on a Linux system with a gui and with how they are done on Windows. The important differences are not at that level, if you actually knew anything about Linux you would know that. A Linux GUI can even be set up to look just like windows, should someone actually want to do that.
 
It takes a special kind of stupid to somehow draw some parallel between Microsoft's dominance of the operating system market and Obama. It truly does.

What parallel, other than both are stupid and result from mass stupidity of the public. Not that I would expect you, a communist, to understand that.
 
What parallel, other than both are stupid and result from mass stupidity of the public. Not that I would expect you, a communist, to understand that.

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Then time to hire new office workers if they are really that dumb. BTW, at the user level, there is very little difference in how things are accessed on a Linux system with a gui and with how they are done on Windows. The important differences are not at that level, if you actually knew anything about Linux you would know that. A Linux GUI can even be set up to look just like windows, should someone actually want to do that.

Doesn't matter. Windows is standard in business practice. If you worked in an office you would know that. No office other than, purhaps software developers will overhaul their existing infrastructure to run linux and linux based software. I always talk about the general population and do so from their point of view on here. I work in IT and I know how linux works more than most people, doesn't mean I would recommend offices to use it for their main Operating Systems for their everyday employees. Its just not going to happen. Fanboys may not think there is much difference but to the casual user, there is!

I've seen people freak about changes from MS 2003-2007. Going to an entirely new way of doing things is not going to make things better.
 
Doesn't matter. Windows is standard in business practice. If you worked in an office you would know that. No office other than, purhaps software developers will overhaul their existing infrastructure to run linux and linux based software. I always talk about the general population and do so from their point of view on here. I work in IT and I know how linux works more than most people, doesn't mean I would recommend offices to use it for their main Operating Systems for their everyday employees. Its just not going to happen. Fanboys may not think there is much difference but to the casual user, there is!

I've seen people freak about changes from MS 2003-2007. Going to an entirely new way of doing things is not going to make things better.

Wonder if that will remain the case after all the recent hacking? The press is good about not revealing the OS that was hacked, but having seen Sony's attitude towards alternative OSs, I have little doubt it was MS.

Then you also know that because an office desktop is MS based and accesses the network, then the network becomes vulnerable because of that desktop.

As an industry "insider", an IT worker, tell us, how many of those systems had MS operating systems as their main or available as a gateway into networks run on other OS systems.

Also, as someone who works in IT, you should know that your definition of what a virus is is completely wrong. A virus exploits weak and poorly written code that has errors in it. Dangling pointers, poor protection, etc. Probably because it was written by script kiddies using MS development cheats. Changing how one virus attacks a weakness doesn't actually fix the weakness, that is why so many viruses attack the same weakness, just through different vectors. MS rarely fixes the real problem, only the vector of the virus attack. That and it's weak separation between "root" will always make it vulnerable. Not to mention it's very poor management of and distribution of updates.
 
1. Wonder if that will remain the case after all the recent hacking? The press is good about not revealing the OS that was hacked, but having seen Sony's attitude towards alternative OSs, I have little doubt it was MS.

2. As an industry "insider", an IT worker, tell us, how many of those systems had MS operating systems as their main or available as a gateway into networks run on other OS systems.

3. Also, as someone who works in IT, you should know that your definition of what a virus is is completely wrong.

1. Sure it will still remain the case, people will just update to windows 7 and above. I've also heard of companies moving to MAC!
2. I'm assuming here you mean the systems that have gotten hacked. My guess is that they were Windows XP, which a lot of companies still use because they have piss poor IT departments and an even worse IT budget. I'm not talking about tech companies here. I'm talking places like Target/Home Depot. My department oversees about 500 computers and we have about half of them updated. It's a slow process to be sure.
3. In my actual real world experience most viruses are installed due to user error. Hacks are caused by people wanting to exploit the systems.

So are you mad that MS in adapting BitCoins or would you rather Linux become a per profit organization and force people to buy linux for their software?
 
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