Microsoft shuts down Azure Blockchain

Microsoft will discontinue support for the Azure Blockchain Service on September 10 and will not accept any new deployments effective immediately.

The company has refrained from providing any official explanation as to why it’s foregoing one of its most ambitious projects.

Microsoft is already supplying its infrastructure for major corporate clients, including JP Morgan, which has embraced cryptocurrencies and blockchain. The list goes on with other customers such as Singapore Airlines, Starbucks and even its own gaming arm, Xbox.

In a post on the Microsoft documentation site earlier this week, the company briefly announced the decision and urged customers to start looking for alternative services.

While this announcement will cause some disruption, founder and CEO of the ConsenSys Quorum blockchain service Joseph Lubin took the opportunity to say that anyone leaving Azure could now join ConsenSys’ own solution.

ConsenSys helped build the Azure platform and has been doing so for the past six years – since 2015 when the project was launched.

Microsoft has been hesitant about its involvement with blockchain and cryptocurrency, and especially current trends such as Bitcoin.

However, Microsoft released a poll earlier this year asking customers if they would be any interested to use Bitcoin payments as part of the Xbox Games Store.

Nothing has transpired from this but Microsoft is definitely not turning a blind eye to blockchain and crypto, even though it’s sending signals to the contrary.

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