Microsoft sees the future as passwordless; all new accounts will be password-free

It is a year since Microsoft embraced passkeys for user accounts, and now the company is taking things further. With passkeys having been conceived as a replacement for passwords, any newly created Microsoft account will be passwordless. This is not just a change that is about improving security (passwords having been shown time and time again to be highly fallible), but also user experience. The passkey-by-default approach now being adopted is part of a streamlining of UX for sign-ins. See also: Microsoft made the announcement to tie in with the very first World Passkey Day, and it sees the company… [Continue Reading]