Microsoft no longer allows customers to unsubscribe from passkey invitations.
“There’s no doubt about it: the password era is coming to an end,” Microsoft writes in a blog. In that blog, the tech giant blasts the praises of how much better passkeys are than passwords. Passkeys are more secure than passwords because they reduce the chances of data theft.
Heavy-handed approach
Microsoft says the success of passkeys is due to the user experience, or inevitable notifications that remind users to switch to passkeys. No opt-out is offered for this purpose.
Microsoft product managers explain in that same blog that that approach has led to a 10 percent drop in password usage and a dramatic 987 percent increase in passkey usage. It is unclear how many users are effectively involved, as the tech giant is not sharing those figures for now. So writes The Register.
Microsoft, Apple and Google continue to further integrate passkeys into their systems. At Google, more than a billion login attempts were reportedly counted with passkeys, although even there the exact figure of active users remains secret. The company recently added synchronization of passkeys across multiple devices, and Apple launched its own password manager where users can store passkeys in addition to passwords.
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