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Microsoft Authenticator won't manage your passwords anymore - or most passkeys
The only type of passkeys that Microsoft currently supports are device-bound (non-syncable) passkeys. Here's what that means for you and your credential management plans.
To me, the dire warnings of this pending doomsday-like deadline are reminiscent of the run-up to January 1, 2000 -- the so-called "Y2K problem" -- when it was anticipated that computers everywhere would experience a meltdown because their programmers never considered the possibility that their software would still be in use in the 21st century. Additionally, neither Edge for Windows nor Microsoft Authenticator (for Entra ID users) offers passkey synchronization. But until that final chess move happens, users have options in the other credential management companies, including Google and all the third-party (1Password, BitWarden, Dashlane, LastPass, NordPass, etc.)
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