The next time you create a Microsoft account, you’ll find that there’s simply no option to set up a password. That’s right—Microsoft is ditching traditional passwords and defaulting to passkeys, ...

In a bold step toward embracing passkeys – which uses cryptography to better protect data from hackers and phishing scams – new Microsoft accounts will now be passwordless by default. Instead, the ...

Microsoft has announced that all new user accounts will be password-less by default. The change is part of the company's new sign-in and sign-up process for web and mobile platforms, which went live ...