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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMicrosoft's Bold Plan To Ditch Passwords In Windows 10 (still in beta)
http://www.wired.com/2015/03/microsofts-bold-plan-ditch-passwords-windows-10/FOR AS LONG as weve called for the death of the password, its still conspiring to make our lives both more complicated and less secure than they should be. In Windows 10, Microsoft will do its part to ease that particular pain. So long, random string of letters, characters, and numbers. Hello, well, Windows Hello.
Windows Hello, announced today on Microsofts blog, is an authentication system relies not on typing memorized gibberish but on face, eye, and fingerprint recognition. Unlocking your laptop or phone will be as simple as looking at or touching it.
Biometric solutions like this arent unique to Microsoft; Android has offered a Face Unlock feature since 2011, and fingerprint ID has been unlocking laptops and smartphones for years now. But the technology behind previous offeringsparticularly facial recognitionhas historically been lacking, and certainly not as ubiquitous as Windows Hello would be given the predominance of Windows machines in the world.
Thats not to say that Microsoft has necessarily gotten it right. There are signs, though, that Hello could succeed where others have muddled, particularly in its compatibility with Intel RealSense 3D cameras, a next-generation tech that can at the very least tell a human from a photo (a distinction with which early Face Unlock devices struggled). Better still? All of the data is stored locally, and not on some remote Microsoft server.
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Microsoft's Bold Plan To Ditch Passwords In Windows 10 (still in beta) (Original Post)
steve2470
Mar 2015
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sabbat hunter
(6,839 posts)1. I have a feeling that
it will be an option, not instead of.
and most likely only for the touch screen devices (surface, phones).
For laptops and desktop machines, especially in a corporate environment, passwords will still be needed.
Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)2. The thing about Microsoft is, things just work. Simply, elegantly, seamlessly, and intuitively.
OK. Now try saying that while keeping a straight face. It's not easy.
LisaL
(44,982 posts)6. Not at all easy.
What are they thinking? A lot of times I can't figure it out.
mythology
(9,527 posts)3. Not for me as long as the Supreme Court holds that a suspect can
be forced to use biological attributes like fingerprints to unlock computers.
Yes I get that quality passwords are hard to remember, but relying only on biological factors have issues too. I wouldn't mind it as a form of two factor authentication though.
delrem
(9,688 posts)4. The NSA will just looooove that to death. nt
LisaL
(44,982 posts)5. So, how is one supposed to use public computers?