Bitcoin Will Get Native Support in Microsoft Excel This Year
Microsoft Excel, the most widely used spreadsheet program in the world will enable bitcoin support in 2017. The confirmation comes ten months after the feature was revealed to be in its development state – which it continues to be at the time of publishing – within the Microsoft Office software suite roadmap. First revealed in March 2016, the feature was among 84 other updates (at the time) that were in development. Pinning bitcoin as a currency, a description for the feature, at the time, read: Bitcoin Currency Format Support. Now use Excel to track, calculate and analyze Bitcoin data....
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In a nod to the growing popularity of Bitcoin, Microsoft Excel – the most popular and widely used spreadsheet program in the world, will provide native support for the cryptocurrency’s format within the program. The Microsoft Office software suite, a collection of various programs which altogether makes for the most popular and widely used office software program in the world will soon be including support for the currency format of Bitcoin, through its spreadsheet program Excel. The revelation is shown as a part of the software suite’s roadmap. The Office 365 roadmap lists all the updates....
Microsoft, a technology giant headquartered in Washington, officially announced its plans to add extensive support for Bitcoin in the upcoming release of Excel 2017, which would allow users to calculate, format and analyze Bitcoin on the platform. Martin Butler, account executive at Microsoft, stated: “In 2017, Excel will be able to recognize, format, calculate and analyze numbers expressed in Bitcoin currency. The new feature will be available for Excel running under Windows 10, Android, Mac OS and iOS, and will include Excel Mobile versions as well.” Atlanta Digital Currency Fund....
Microsoft's upcoming Office 365 version to include support for Bitcoin accounting and calculations. Bitcoin is one of the most valuable cryptocurrencies out there at the moment. Its increasing popularity seems to have gotten Microsoft to include support for Bitcoin in its products. Microsoft Office is probably one of the most used piece of software. Anyone familiar with computers would have used at least one of the products from their Office suite. Be it an Apple Mac or a Windows user, Office 365 customers can soon maintain and manage their Bitcoin accounting on Excel. The upcoming....
Microsoft is continuing to support cryptocurrency and blockchain technology within its infrastructure. Just recently, ConsenSys and Microsoft have collaborated on integrating Ethereum’s programming language, Solidity into the company’s Visual Studio. The tech giant company has also revealed that Excel 2016 will support Bitcoin’s currency format within....
In a day when the major bitcoin headline was that of Microsoft seemingly cutting ties with Bitcoin, the company has now been forced to apologize for what it deemed as “inaccurate information”. Bitcoin will continue to be supported. Technology giant Microsoft had suggested in a recent FAQ/How-to post that it would be no longer accepting Bitcoin. It was a clearly worded statement, leaving no doubt about its intent. “You can no longer redeem Bitcoin into your Microsoft account,” it said. However, the software maker has now claimed that the earlier post –now removed and redirecting to their....