Windows 10 Is Going To Be Passwordless

Windows 10 is going passwordless. For a couple of months up to now, Microsoft has been focusing the project of getting rid of passwords from the latest Windows 10 and also Microsoft Accounts. The next important update to Windows 10 in the following year is to move further. Soon users can sign in Microsoft accounts on a device using Windows 10 without passwords, which means that personal computers will soon utilize Windows Hello PIN code, fingerprints or facial authentication. If you make a decision to choose this latest feature to “make your device passwordless”, password option will no longer appear on the login screen.

The reason for this removal of passwords is simply because they suck. Users feel like reusing passwords in every web and also on personal devices although there are a lot of available methods, like two-factor authentication.

According to Microsoft, using a PIN code is much safer than using passwords, not to mention the fact that it appears to be simpler to use a PIN code with four digits. It’s because the code is not shared on the Internet but stored only on a device.

On Windows 10, users’ private key is stored on a device having TPM or Trusted Platform Module. TPM is a secure chip keeping the code local to users’ devices only. PIN code of Windows Hello would not be affected when servers are compromised.

Users of Windows 10 has been gradually convinced to choose two-factor authentication methods including Windows Hello, basic SMS, a separate app of Microsoft Authenticator, and physical security processes with FIDO2 standard. In the latest update of Windows 10 in May – 2019, users are even able to set up as well as get into a personal computer in Windows 10 by using just a mobile phone number of a Microsoft Account.

Currently, Microsoft is planning to let users remove entirely the password option from the login screen of Windows 10. Business users will also have this feature via Azure Active Directory, which lets businesses go totally passwordless with Windows Hello, security keys or the authenticator app.

This new feature is a step into the future in which hopefully we do not need to remember complicated passwords. If Google, Apple, and Microsoft do everything this way, users will soon be using physical keys, their fingerprints or their eyes to log into their accounts and also their devices in lieu of using passwords.