Why is Microsoft taking down the Authenticator password filling feature?

Why is Microsoft taking down the Authenticator password filling feature?

Recently, Authenticator users should have seen a reminder in the app when opening the app - Autofill in Microsoft Authenticator will stop from July 2025, and users are advised to use Edge instead. The plan is as follows: Starting June 2025, you will no longer be able to Add or Import new passwords in the Authenticator App. However, you can continue saving passwords through autofill until July. During July 2025, you will not be able to use autofill with Authenticator. From August 2025, your saved passwords will no longer be accessible in Authenticator. It can be seen that from stopping adding new passwords to disabling auto-fill, to being completely inaccessible, Authenticator is gradually stripping away its password-related functions, but many users use Authenticator precisely because it can synchronize and fill passwords across platforms. So why does Microsoft do this? ...

June 8, 2025 · 4 min · 672 words · Louis
Celebrating Microsoft's 50th Birthday

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50 years is not a short time, whether for a person or a company. In 1975, Bill Gates and his good friend Paul Allen founded Microsoft, which truly brought microcomputers to ordinary people and profoundly changed the world. In the past 50 years, Microsoft has created many great products. Let’s review Microsoft’s milestones! Corporate Growth 1975: Microsoft Founded Bill Gates and Paul Allen established Microsoft, marking the beginning of a transformative era in personal computing. ...

March 31, 2025 · 5 min · 938 words · Louis
Not Microsoft. It's CrowdStrike Caused Millions of Blue Screens

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On July 19, 2024, a significant number of Windows operating systems worldwide experienced a critical failure, resulting in blue screens or recovery mode. The incident disrupted various industries, grounding flights, halting hotel check-ins, and paralyzing retail operations. Even ATMs were out of service. Microsoft initially estimated that nearly 8.5 million devices globally were affected. Given that the affected systems were all running Windows and that past Windows updates had encountered similar issues, Microsoft was initially the prime suspect. However, investigations revealed that the culprit was a faulty update pushed out by CrowdStrike. ...

July 31, 2024 · 3 min · 454 words · Louis
We are Sure that Windows 12 Does Not Come Soon

We are Sure that Windows 12 Does Not Come Soon

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April 19, 2024 · 4 min · 750 words · Louis
Official: Windows 10's End of Life(EOL) Date

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The first version of Windows 10(version 1507) launched on Jul 29, 2015. The final version(version 22H2) which was released on Oct 18, 2022, will end of life(EOL) on Oct 14, 2025, Microsoft officially confirmed. Official Announcement Microsoft has announced this through multiple sources: ...

April 9, 2024 · 3 min · 477 words · Louis