Your password will be deleted—but it’s more complex than it seems. “The password era is ending,” Microsoft has confirmed, warning its billion users that ...

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, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Zak Doffman writes about security, surveillance and privacy. Microsoft is on a mission to delete passwords for a billion users, ...

Microsoft is taking another big step toward eliminating passwords with a "passwordless by default" setting for new accounts. New users will be prompted to set up passkeys when creating their Microsoft ...