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The Microsoft Excel spreadsheet program from Microsoft now has the ability to select Bitcoin as a currency format. The company did not announce this event in any way, and one of Twitter users noticed the appearance of the new option. New Excel options in Microsoft excel pic.twitter.com/nqjUcKGqzL – Dennis Parker⚡️ (@Xentagz) May 27, 2019. It is worth noting that adding support for the format […]

Microsoft is developing an ION solution that allows users to identify themselves in order to gain access to certain information. According to the company, the decision is based on the bitcoin blockchain. Since ION-managed identifiers are decentralized, if a user account is deleted on social networks, access to the services associated with the account will remain. All photos published in the profile will belong to […]

Microsoft Corporation, in collaboration with JPMorgan American financial holding, will improve Quorum blockchain platform, CoinDesk reports. The platform developers, together with Microsoft experts, reconstructed the privacy architecture. In particular, they replaced Constellation’s privacy engine, written in the Haskell programming language, with Tessera’s Java manager. As the head of Quorum, Oli Haris, said, the changes will make the blockchain platform more attractive […]

Starbucks, a large chain of coffee houses, will use the technologies developed by Microsoft to improve its operations. This ForkLog was reported by representatives of Microsoft. For example, a service for generating personalized food and beverage recommendations will be added to the Starbucks® Rewards mobile app. For this, the coffee shop uses technology based on the Microsoft Azure cloud platform. Recommendations will be formed on the basis of 400 different factors, considering, […]

Microsoft has introduced a number of new services and technologies on the Azure cloud platform for developers. This company reported in the official release. So, Microsoft developers have announced the launch of the Azure Blockchain Service, which simplifies the creation and management of blockchain solutions with various participants, united in a single network. The first blockchain platform available in the Azure Blockchain Service will be the Ethereum-based Quorum, developed by […]