By Zak Doffman
You now have just ten days before Microsoft starts deleting your passwords. Do not leave it too late and be sure to save your data. But before you do, there’s a new warning that might change your mind on what to do next.
First, as to what’s behind Microsoft’s new deletions. The company is on a mission to delete passwords for more than a billion users as the “password era is ending.” As part of that, it has already stoped autofilling passwords from its Authenticator app and in August those passwords will be deleted from its systems.
While Microsoft’s Authenticator will still continue to store passkeys, users are urged to use Edge instead as a password manager, and data will automatically move across. But Proton has now warned that “the direction is clear: core features are being consolidated inside a single ecosystem, with fewer options for users.”
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