Microsoft is once again emphasizing that passwords are a thing of the past, while passkeys represent the future of secure, ...

Windows 11 now has native support for third-party passkey managers. The November 2025 security update is adding this in. This should bring an end to the disjointed feeling that Passkeys used to have ...

Microsoft announced that passwordless authentication is now easier on Windows 11 through native support for third-party ...

Windows November 2025 security update adds native support for third-party passkey managers like 1Password and Bitwarden.

Microsoft can't get enough of Copilot in Windows. The OS shoves it in your face every chance it gets—in your taskbar, your ...

Microsoft continually makes enhancements to Windows and while general users judge these efforts based on what they can actually see and use, the company makes a lot of changes on the backend that ...

Microsoft this week indicated that it plans to eliminate the need to use the New Technology LAN Manager (NTLM) protocol in Windows 11, with Kerberos taking its place. NTLM use has long been a ...

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 ...

Adam Bertram is a 20-year IT veteran, blogger and freelance writer. Follow him on the social platform X @adbertram. In a zero-trust environment, a device trusts nothing. It demands authentication for ...

Due to Windows authentication issues which has to do with a user account and password, when you attempt to establish a Remote Desktop connection to a remote Windows-based machine, to remotely logon to ...

Microsoft will sunset free support and security updates for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025. The company has put forth some basic recommendations in its Windows 11 transition guide: Back up your files, ...

The Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is now advising federal agencies and others to patch a Windows flaw from Microsoft's May Patch Tuesday. CISA has re-added the Windows flaw CVE ...