As I’ve said before, passwords suck. Microsoft agrees—last year, it announced a goal of getting one billion users to embrace passkeys instead. As part of that effort, setting up a passkey for a ...
A few minutes now can save you from getting locked out of your PC later—and losing access to all your cloud files.
Learn how you can create and manage passkeys on Windows 11 with Windows Hello for secure, passwordless authentication across your favorite sites.
Microsoft’s Windows 10 Extended Security Updates (ESU) are free if you use a Microsoft account, but there’s been a major catch added. Now, you have to keep signing in to it every 60 days, or the ...
These days, I'm very popular in Russia, Ukraine, Moldova, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and even Albania. At least, that's what it looks like based on this list of recent attempts to sign in to my Microsoft ...
Passkeys offer a way of confirming you are who you say you are without remembering a long, complicated password, and in a ...
In today's rapidly evolving identity landscape, organizations are accelerating their adoption of cloud-first strategies (specifically by modernizing identity infrastructure through the adoption of ...
Microsoft says it’s making passwordless logins the default means for signing in to new accounts, as the company helps drive an industry-wide push to transition away from passwords and the costly ...
No, you’re not imagining it—Microsoft did announce sign-in changes for February. But now, the company is backtracking, claiming the reports relied on “incomplete information,” The Verge reports. The ...