Microsoft, Google do a victory lap around passkeys

Microsoft announced passkey support for consumer Microsoft accounts across Windows, Google, and Apple platforms via browsers (with mobile app support coming soon), aligning with broader industry moves toward passwordless authentication. The article explains how FIDO-based passkeys use public-private key pairs to provide phishing-resistant logins, cites Microsoft’s rising password attack statistics (over 4,000 per second in 2023), and notes Google’s milestone of over 1 billion passkey authentications, positioning passkeys as a simpler and more secure alternative to traditional passwords.