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Windows 8 Plans to Bring-in A Different Form of Passwords To Comfort Its Users Passwords are the safest way of protecting your online documents and accounts from hackers. But, remembering passwords has always been the negative side. Most of the people using online applications try to remember all the different passwords for different accounts, or use a single password for multiple accounts. Both these practices are not friendly for the users and hence, are least favorable. Even both these practices leave open the possibility of accounts being hacked by expert hackers. The need now is to generate a much simpler way for protecting online accounts along with the guarantee of complete protection and safety. With this concern, Microsoft has taken a leap in this issue and trying to take resolutions for resolving it. The latest venture of Microsoft, Windows 8 operating system is now planning to implement a new technique for setting passwords for online accounts. With this plan, Windows 8 will allow its users to access their accounts from multiple PCs using their Windows Live IDs. In a Windows 8 blog, Dustin Ingalls, program manager for Microsoft’s security and identity team, mentions in detail about how both Windows 8 and Internet Explorer 10 are trying to adopt that simpler yet secure approach. After this plan is implemented, you will be able to synchronize your data and settings like your login credentials, between different Windows 8 PCs, ensuring that your password remains consistent for all PCs. “When you store credentials in conjunction with signing in to Windows with your Windows Live ID, Windows enables you to set your password for each account to something that is both complex and unique; since Windows 8 will automatically submit the credential on your behalf, you’ll never need to remember it yourself. If you need to see the actual password at some point later, you can view it in the credential manager from any of your Trusted PCs.” Ingalls mentioned in his post. However, the managing of passwords in Windows 8 and IE 10 with this approach is not mandatory for all. It is a voluntary service and you can opt for it if you wish, else deny it and go for the older approach itself. Apart from this approach, Microsoft is also planning for some other different approaches to make the password management simpler. |
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