May 3, 2025

✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-05-02

This week I’m diving into Microsoft’s push to adopt passkeys faster, echoing Google’s earlier move.

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🔐 + 🔮 The story that caught my eye this week was the move by Microsoft to accelerate the embrace of passkeys.

Techmeme: Microsoft says new accounts will be “passwordless by default”, asking people to use more secure methods like passkeys, push notifications, and security keys (Umar Shakir/The Verge)

By Umar Shakir / The Verge. View the full context on Techmeme.

For context, I've written about this topic before... but it was back in September 2024 and it was the move by Google to accelerate the embrace of passkeys.

🌶️ Hot Fudge Sunday for 2024-09-22

This week's edition dives into market insights, AI funding, and Google's new passkey management!

Progress!!

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