Microsoft has issued a massive passkey update, detailing plans to remove passwords for more than a billion Windows users.
Microsoft has officially declared war on the password. In a sweeping update affecting more than a billion users, the company is making it clear—it’s time to ditch your Microsoft account password for good. This is just the latest move in Microsoft’s passkey update, which aims to move all users away from the security wyas of olden days.
Starting in April, Microsoft will begin rolling out a new sign-in and account creation experience that puts passkeys at the center. “Our ultimate goal is to remove passwords completely,” the company said in a security update posted in December.
Microsoft says it now blocks around 7,000 password-related attacks per second, nearly double the rate from last year. With AI-fueled phishing attempts and increasingly clever hacks, passwords—no matter how long or quirky—just aren’t holding up.
