微软宣布所有新Microsoft账户将默认采用“无密码”模式，旨在简化用户登录体验并提高安全性。用户将使用通行密钥（如PIN、面部识别或指纹扫描）代替传统密码登录。微软称，通行密钥的登录成功率远高于密码，且速度更快。亚马逊、谷歌和WhatsApp等科技公司也在积极推动无密码登录方式，预示着一个更安全、便捷的数字身份验证时代的到来。

🔑微软推出“无密码”账户，新用户无需设置密码，改用PIN、面部识别或指纹等通行密钥登录，简化了用户登录流程。

📈微软数据显示，使用通行密钥登录的成功率高达98%，是密码登录的3倍，且登录速度是密码加多因素认证的8倍，显著提升了效率。

🌐除了微软，亚马逊、谷歌和WhatsApp等科技巨头也在积极推进通行密钥登录，无密码化趋势已成为行业共识。

Think of something you'll remember forever, something so close to your heart or brain that you wouldn't have to write it down to keep it top of mind. You'll have to type it out every day for 30 days. It has to have 15 characters, an uppercase letter, a lowercase letter, a symbol, and a number. The numbers cannot be consecutive. It cannot be similar to anything you've ever said before. You will have to recall this secret code constantly or risk being locked out of every device and subscription you need.

Of course, we're talking about your password, and it is a nightmare. Now, Microsoft wants to get rid of passwords entirely.

The company announced this week that moving forward, all new Microsoft accounts will be "passwordless by default."

According to a May 1 post on Microsoft's blog, the move is part of a "journey toward passwordless sign-in." Instead of using a password to sign on, Microsoft wants you to use a passkey, which could be a PIN or a biometric option such as facial recognition or a fingerprint scan. (That sounds a lot better than Sam Altman's eyeball-scanning machine, The Orb.)

"[Users] signing in with passkeys are three times more successful at getting into their account than password users (about 98% versus 32%)," the blog post reads. "When you use a passkey, you get into your account much quicker too! Passkey sign-ins are eight times faster than a password and multifactor authentication."

So not only will signing in be less annoying, but it will also be more efficient, Microsoft argues.

"As part of this simplified UX, we’re changing the default behavior for new accounts. Brand new Microsoft accounts will now be 'passwordless by default,'" Microsoft wrote in its blog post. "New users will have several passwordless options for signing into their account and they’ll never need to enroll a password. Existing users can visit their account settings to delete their password."

Microsoft isn't the only tech company moving towards passkey-friendly logins. Amazon, Google, and WhatsApp are all also working towards it.