Microsoft goes passwordless by default on new accounts

[Kaz]

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After supporting passwordless Windows logins for years and even allowing users to delete passwords from their accounts, Microsoft is making its biggest move yet towards a future with no passwords. Now it will ask people signing up for new accounts to only use more secure methods like passkeys, push notifications, and security keys instead, by default.

The new no-password initiative by Microsoft is accompanied by its recently launched, optimized sign-in window design with reordered steps that flow better for a passwordless and passkey-first experience.

 

Microsoft goes passwordless by default on new accounts

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The company is trying to get everyone to get rid of passwords, eventually.

 

Nothing can go wrong with this plan.

[schuck6566]

I had a heck of a time resetting a password when my government cell provider went through their accounts and closed the ones that they thought were inactive. When I went to get it reactivated they had to give me a new number. That made getting the text verification real fun.