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Going forward, new Microsoft accounts will be "passwordless by default." When you sign up for the first time, you'll be asked to enter your email address and verify it with a one-time code ...

New Microsoft accounts ... for several months. Existing Microsoft accounts can delete their passwords and will now have a passkey as the preferred way to sign in. "Although passwords have ...

Microsoft released a new Windows Insider build of Windows 11 to its experimental Dev Channel today, with a fairly extensive batch of new features and tweaks. But the most important one for ...

Click "Add a new way to sign in or verify ... Choose the option to set up a different app and then add the account to Microsoft Authenticator using the supplied barcode. That will result in ...

“We’ve reduced the number of concepts per screen to lower cognitive load and speed up the ... both Microsoft accounts and Microsoft Entra accounts,” says Goldstein. This new sign-in UI ...

The company says that soon, anyone setting up a new Microsoft account will be guided to use a passkey during the sign-up process, which means passwords will no longer be the default option ...

Microsoft claims that this will make speed-up the sign-in process and will reduce the use of passwords by 20%. New account creation processes will now guide users to set up a passkey as their ...

Microsoft has announced that all new Microsoft accounts will be "passwordless ... after the company started rolling out updated sign-in and sign-up user experience (UX) flows for web and mobile ...

Now it will ask people signing up for new accounts to only use ... The new no-password initiative by Microsoft is accompanied by its recently launched, optimized sign-in window design with ...

New Microsoft ... launch of Microsoft Hello, which allowed users to log into machines with secure biometrics. "To keep your digital life safe, you need a way to sign into any account without ...