Reply To: It’s time to delete that hunter2 password from your Microsoft account, And go passwordless, use auth app, keys, Windows Hello, or codes to login. From this week, Microsoft won’t require you, or your password manager, to come up with strings of…

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Jakkal had more numbers. From a survey, 15 per cent of people polled used their pets’ names as a password, 40 per cent say they’ve used a formula to create their passwords, and 10 per cent admitted they reused passwords. In a Twitter poll, 20 per cent of respondents said they would rather accidentally and embarrassingly “reply all” to a message than go through the hassle of resetting a password.

Additionally, the tech giant said nearly 100 per cent of its employees are passwordless when it comes to their corporate accounts.

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This password-free login approach isn’t available right across Microsoft’s vast empire, though it can be used with “apps and services like Microsoft 365, Microsoft Teams, Outlook, OneDrive, Family Safety, Microsoft Edge and more,” we’re told. Office 2010 or older, Remote Desktop, and Xbox 360 will require a password. And for signing into Windows, you need to be on version 10 or 11.

The reversible process for ditching a password involves downloading and linking the Microsoft Authenticator App to your personal Microsoft account, going to your account settings, navigating to Advanced Security Options and then Additional Security Options, and turning on Passwordless Account.

In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom (J.G.Ballard).

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