Goodbye master password, hello Windows Hello. Edge is ditching passwords in favor of biometrics.

Microsoft is introducing IAKerb and LocalKDC in Windows Insider builds to reduce NTLM dependency and expand Kerberos ...

Microsoft on World Password Day described passwordless milestones for a bunch of its products, per a Thursday announcement. The first Thursday of May has been deemed World Password Day. Its ...

Microsoft ended support for password master in Edge on June 4, 2026, in favour of Windows Hello.

Update 5/20: Microsoft now considers these authentication problems to be resolved, having released “out-of-band” updates on May 19, as described here. Microsoft this week acknowledged possible ...

Microsoft Authenticator to stop saving new passwords June 1. Update, May 4, 2025: This story, originally published May 2, has been updated with further information on the use of passkeys by Microsoft, ...

The Kerberos authentication method originated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the 1980s, as part of a project called Athena. The project involved integrating the computers on the MIT ...

Microsoft is investigating a known issue causing authentication failures for some Windows services after installing updates released during the May 2022 Patch Tuesday. This comes after Windows admins ...

Microsoft is investigating a new known issue causing enterprise domain controllers to experience Kerberos authentication problems after installing security updates released to address CVE-2020-17049 ...