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Microsoft authenticator windows 1012/30/2023 The eternal chicken-and-egg situation of low usage both causing weak app support and being caused by weak app support continues to be something that Microsoft has little interest in fixing. The Authenticator app is available for iOS, Android, and Windows 10 Mobile, but regrettably, while the first two include the new feature, Microsoft has not seen fit to add it to the version of the software that runs on its own platform, citing low usage. This same approve-or-reject choice on the phone has been offered previously to Microsoft Accounts, but in the past, it still required the use of the fixed password. From that alert, you can either approve or reject the authentication attempt-no password necessary. With phone-based authentication enabled, after entering your Microsoft Account e-mail address, you'll receive an alert on your phone. The login process is straightforward: first you sign in to each site with your username and regular, fixed password, then you use the code generated by the app.īut for Microsoft accounts, Redmond is offering something new: getting rid of that first password and using just the phone to authenticate. ![]() You can use it to generate numeric authentication codes for accounts on Google, Facebook, Twitter, and indeed, any other service that uses a standard one-time password. Microsoft Authenticator is a pleasant enough two-factor authentication app.
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