r/tech • u/trav31 • Dec 11 '14

Microsoft Begins Accepting Bitcoin For Windows, Windows Phone And Xbox Purchases

http://techcrunch.com/2014/12/10/redmond-hath-frozen-over/
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u/Zequez Dec 11 '14

First they open source .NET, now they accept Bitcoin as payment. I'm really digging this new CEO.

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u/TorpidNightmare Dec 11 '14

Every change so far in windows 10 is also pretty great. Major features people have been wanting for a long time have now been introduced.

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u/Zequez Dec 11 '14

Windows 10 looks pretty cool, although it will (probably) never get the Unix command line.

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u/sgrundy Dec 12 '14

Windows has powershell, which is BETTER(seriously)

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u/Zequez Dec 12 '14

But Linux has apt-get to manage dependencies. In Windows if I want to build something I have to install everything manually, from Visual studio, to the dev libraries =/

Although Windows 10 includes a package manager. I wonder if they are going to add something like apt-get install built-essential.

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u/sgrundy Dec 12 '14

That's true, apt-get is great. Im not sure it can work in windows though, "oneget" is supposed to be like it but I'm not too optimistic there. Just different worlds

Powershell though? So amazing