Goodbye master password, hello Windows Hello. Edge is ditching passwords in favor of biometrics.

Authenticator apps are a multi-factor authentication (MFA) method for encrypting your online login credentials. Stay protected with the top MFA apps we've tested. I review privacy tools like hardware ...

Microsoft ended support for password master in Edge on June 4, 2026, in favour of Windows Hello.

Microsoft on World Password Day described passwordless milestones for a bunch of its products, per a Thursday announcement. The first Thursday of May has been deemed World Password Day. Its ...

Update 5/20: Microsoft now considers these authentication problems to be resolved, having released “out-of-band” updates on May 19, as described here. Microsoft this week acknowledged possible ...

Microsoft is introducing IAKerb and LocalKDC in Windows Insider builds to reduce NTLM dependency and expand Kerberos ...

Microsoft has been working to make passwordless sign-in for Windows and Microsoft accounts a reality for years now, and today those efforts come to fruition: The Verge reports that starting today, ...

Microsoft Authenticator to stop saving new passwords June 1. Update, May 4, 2025: This story, originally published May 2, has been updated with further information on the use of passkeys by Microsoft, ...

The Kerberos authentication method originated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the 1980s, as part of a project called Athena. The project involved integrating the computers on the MIT ...

Microsoft is investigating a known issue causing authentication failures for some Windows services after installing updates released during the May 2022 Patch Tuesday. This comes after Windows admins ...