![]() ![]() Should I not have my phone nearby, I can also use Windows Hello, which utilizes an optional biometric authentication and a PIN. No password is required.Īnd now, all I need is to unlock my phone and match the same number in the prompt to validate this specific authentication request. When you click Next, instead of seeing the usual password prompt, you get a confirmation for signing in with the help of Microsoft Authenticator on your phone. (don’t worry, that account is not a real one in the image above) How does it work now, then? If I choose to login into any service with this MSA, I’m presented with the login prompt as you would expect: I chose to play this super safe and not clean up the password from my password manager – even if I knew it’s in vain, as the password isn’t valid any longer. Unceremoniously, the password is taken away from you. I set out to configure one of my ( reasonably discardable) Microsoft Accounts for this. It sounds scary but promising at the same time! You can entirely remove the password from your account through this capability. In September 2021, Microsoft announced that Microsoft Accounts could go fully passwordless. Typically, this is through the Microsoft Authenticator mobile app on my phone. Using a strong authentication is a must, and I’m always careful to enable and enforce additional factors beyond ‘just’ a username and a password. For multiple reasons, you tend to end up with more than a dozen of these – different Microsoft services might require a fresh one, or you need to separate and segregate certain services with different accounts. They used to be called Live ID’s when I was young. One of the necessary credentials are my Microsoft Accounts (MSAs). There are over 1,000 secrets stored, and obviously, I don’t need to use all of them daily or even weekly. I had a look at the number of passwords I have stored in my password manager software.
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