The break will not have lasted. Microsoft reinstates the bitcoin to credit the balance of an account and buy on the Microsoft Store.
Stopping transactions with bitcoins for Microsoft, and more specifically the ability to credit the balance of a Microsoft account with this cryptocurrency during very volatile, had been announced temporary.
The temporary measure has already been lifted, and so the return of bitcoin as a payment option for purchases of content on the Microsoft Store (formerly Windows Store).
At Thurrott.com, a Microsoft spokesman said, "We've reinstated bitcoin as a payment option in our store after working with our provider to make sure the lower bitcoins would be refundable through customers. "
Microsoft's decision was therefore less radical than that of Valve's Steam platform. This is not the first time Microsoft has been "hesitant" about bitcoin as a payment method.